Re: Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote: Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote: All right, so I tried it out, and nothing happens. I did a test run on my UltraSPARC 2 at the office where it worked just fine. I ran it as: root# memtest all -l after which I get a screenful of things where it

Re: Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-20 Thread Marc
Do you run os x on it?? I seem to be able, when I install on another machine and plug an ibm deskstar in the 1st ide bus, together with the cdrom. otherwise: no go... also rev 1. Op 19-nov-04 om 14:48 heeft Mehul N. Sanghvi het volgende geschreven: 'allo, I've got a G3 BW with 768 MB

Re: Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-20 Thread Mehul N. Sanghvi
Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote: Tommy Trussell wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:48:51 -0500, Mehul N. Sanghvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to test the RAM and make sure the memory is good. There is a Debian package called sysutils that includes a memtest utility but I have not tried it.

Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-19 Thread Mehul N. Sanghvi
'allo, I've got a G3 BW with 768 MB of RAM in it, one 6 GB Maxtor and a 13 GB IBM DeskStar. The disks are both IDE. On my old PowerMac 7100, under MacOS 7.6.1 I used to have something that tested the RAM and hard disk to see if things were working fine. It also tested the L2 cache as

Re: Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-19 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:48:51 -0500, Mehul N. Sanghvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to test the RAM and make sure the memory is good. There is a Debian package called sysutils that includes a memtest utility but I have not tried it. The 13 GB IBM is just sitting around useless because I

Re: Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-19 Thread Mehul N. Sanghvi
Tommy Trussell wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:48:51 -0500, Mehul N. Sanghvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to test the RAM and make sure the memory is good. There is a Debian package called sysutils that includes a memtest utility but I have not tried it. The 13 GB IBM is just