on 11-21-2008 10:10 AM nate spake the following: > Rob Townley wrote: > >> i have some several year old DL360's and ML370's and love em - >> especially hw raid, but i my local supplier hasn't had any for several >> months. Uptil a few months ago, password reset info on ebay was sent >> in the clear, so i have a very hard time trusting ebay. It would be >> great if something like LinuxBios / OpenBios could stresstest the >> machine and then disable any RAM addresses that proved flaky - whether >> ECC or not. > > Wondering if you had heard of this project? I don't trust doing > this sort of thing myself(paranoid) but.. > > http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ > > I think that (or another similar project) can even take memtest86 > output and use that as a map for blocking out the bad parts of the > ram chips. > > nate I wouldn't trust that anymore. That is from a day when ram was priced like it was made out of gold or platinum. Bad ram over time will just make an ever expanding hole.
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