Hi Miki,
I used this patch with some old machine I had it here (it's now dead) - and
it worked perfectly.
Look here:
http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
All the explanations, instructions, how to find what memory region is fucked
up - are all there.
Enjoy,
Hetz
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 23:34, Miki Shapiro wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> Yes, I know how much RAM costs today (150NIS/128MB), but this is a matter
> of principal (and the everpresent possibility of learning something new)
> I have a buggy 64 Meg chip that works, but is broken at some memory
> locations. No, it's not under warranty.
>
> I know that in my good ol' DOS days, you could exclude certain memory
> ranges from being used by passing parameters to HIMEM.SYS (or
> emm386.exe? I really can't remember). You could find the addresses
> of the buggy locations using apps like Norton Utilities for DOS.
>
> Now I have this here chip, and a linux box I'd like to stick it in.
> 1. Is there any proggie for ANY os that can find the problematic addresses
> on the DIMM, or do I have to write it myself?
> 2. Is there a way to ask the linux kernel nicely not to use these
> ranges? (boot-time parameters, some special kernel driver, code tweaks,
> etc.)
>
> Thanks a bunch
>
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