At a theoretical level, Linux can map bad blocks of memory out of the way and use good blocks. I remember reading about a set of kernel patches that were written by someone who was exploring the idea of selling 'faulty' RAM (which is a lot cheaper) and mapping out the bad bits. Since RAM has come down in price so much over the last 2 years, I suspect that this idea has been dropped. Richard
-----Original Message----- From: John McNulty [SMTP:john@jmtl.com] Sent: 23 October 2001 01:36 To: David A. Riggs; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] [RAM] Test memory
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 1:17 am, David A. Riggs wrote:
Could you point me towards some information on excluding bad blocks of RAM? Is this something that can only be setup in BIOS, or is it possible to specify at boot? I was under the impression that a dud
stick
was destined for keychain duty.
you're quite correct ! keychain duty it is. Remapping bad blocks is a repair function that applies to disks, not memory.
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