Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:16:45 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org (J McKitrick) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad memory patch? Message-ID: <38ed282a.168335243@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <SEN.955035892.508976947@news.sentex.net> References: <SEN.955035892.508976947@news.sentex.net>
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On 6 Apr 2000 11:44:52 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: >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 sounds like a recipe for disaster. You cannot determine with any degree of reasonable certainty via software if RAM is bad. For such a critical component, I cant imagine anyone wanting to take such a chance. It would be bad enough even on a personal workstation, let alone a server. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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