From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 25 14:49:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA25524 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from isgate.is (isgate.is [193.4.58.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA25515 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:49:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from totii@est.is) Received: from eh.est.is (eh.est.is [194.144.208.34]) by isgate.is (8.7.5-M/) with ESMTP id VAA01439; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 21:48:55 GMT Received: from didda.est.is (totii@ppp-22.est.is [194.144.208.122]) by eh.est.is (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA25196; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 21:47:25 GMT Message-ID: <34526949.2781E494@est.is> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 21:48:57 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DEor=F0ur?= Ivarsson X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Fieber CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Parity Ram References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber wrote: > > 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 lot of memory without parity has been sold in low-end computers to cut the price but when you have to work on fix of broken computer it can take long time if you are not going to 'Just replace all the simms'. Very often you will have to run the computer hour after hour to find the broken one if you have parity-less memory. Thordur Ivarsson