Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 15:29:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DEor=F0ur?= Ivarsson <totii@est.is> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Parity Ram Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971025152756.23973D-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <345269F0.446B9B3D@est.is>
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On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, [iso-8859-1] Žoršur Ivarsson wrote: > Tom 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 > > > > Why? To discover memory problems before they corrupt data, and cause > > random panics, core dumps, hangs, or file system corruption. Personally, > > I use ECC capable motherboards that can actually use parity to fix some > > errors. > > You need EDO ram I think for this to work, You need some memory to keep > information of what is in your memory before. No. EDO is just like regular DRAM, except the timing is different (faster). ECC uses the parity bits in regular parity RAM. Tom
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