Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:03:54 -0800 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Non Parity Ram Message-ID: <199503172203.OAA14843@geli.clusternet>
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| |> > |> > What will FreeBSD do with Non Parity ram? I have some of this. I haven't |> > been getting parity errors or anything, but I'm kind of curious if it's going |> > to cause problems... | |> If your motherboard supports non parity ram it will work, the real down |> side is that if a memory error does occur you wan't know about it as |> it will not generate a NMI so that FreeBSD can gracefully panic. Instead |> something will just go wrong some place, without a clue as to why it |> happened. | | Hmm. The ram seems to be behaving (no odd problems), and I like having |52M vs. 20M, so I'm going to try to live with it and offload it on some dos |user for parity ram at some point :-) | I've got two 32MB systems running no-parity (an Intel 100MHZ Premiere and an ASUS P54SP4) with no problems at all for two months. At least as far as I can tell ;-) 4x32 simms have been a lot cheaper than 4x36 in the past, but they seem to be less so these days. Russell
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