On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 at 20:31, Jerome Tan wrote:
>Has anyone tried using bad RAMs on Linux system and use the patch of the
>kernel that avoid bad addresses? I'm thinking of reusing old defective
>RAMs...
Sounds great for a third world scenario, but honestly, patch or no patch,
this sends shivers down my spine. Unless of course you'll be using this on
a computer on which you won't mind a crash or system halt any time. I've
had experiences with bad RAM (I didn't know), and I wouldn't like to go
through them again. (Of course I wasn't using Linux yet, if I was, I'd
have checked my RAM with memtest first). I remember being radioed from
school, our file server (a crummy NT workstation machine that eventually
became my first Linux box) went down. The morning before that I plugged in
additional RAM (that was working), and boot up went okay. Ugh. System
froze up and ... oh well. At least I got a free coke and a free day from
school. Nyehehehe.
FWIW, though, would you mind sharing the URL of the said patch? I'd love
to read up a bit on this. Sounds interesting (despite my phobia, hehe).
--> Jijo
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