Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 15:30:57 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Parity Ram Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971025152749.18619A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971025115335.173A-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org>
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On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > Can someone fill me in on when you would want to use parity ram as opposed > to non-parity ram these days? So when your memory fails, you know it was a memory failure rather than an irreproducable software bug. Also, with appropriate BIOS support, you can get not only error detection, but some error correction capability. My question is why would anybody want to use non-parity ram? -john
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