Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 12:26:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad memory patch? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061225430.75475-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000406163815.A29984@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, J McKitrick wrote: > I saw this link recently... > > http://home.zonnet.nl/vanrein/badram/ > > Apparently, you make a floppy with the supplied image, boot with it to > find the bad RAM addresses, and then those addresses are passed on as a > kernel parameter once the patch is applied. Bad addresses will be excluded > from addressable/virtual memory from then on. > > Sounds like sometheing we could use, eh? It's not possible to find bad RAM deterministically from software..if you have bad RAM, you need to replace it, end of story. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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