Hi, We are buying some computers in our office, and one vendor's quote said that the memory was "NP" SDRAM. I had asked here a few days ago about "NP" RAM: what it is and how it relates to ECC RAM.
Many thanks to Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who replied saying that NP stand for 'non-parity'. All the sources I consulted (including the Debian installation manual) say that parity RAM is advisable for reliability. The chipset we are going for (due to cost factors) is Intel 815e, and this does not support either parity or ECC RAM. Intel 820 and later chipsets apparently support parity and ECC RAM. So right now, we have decided to make do with non-parity and non-ECC RAM. Thanks again for your time, Dave and John. Best, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra | GnuPG signed/encrypted mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | welcome. Key ID: 03618806. Harish-Chandra Research Institute | C75D D0AF 457E 7454 BEC2 http://www.mri.ernet.in/~raghu/ | 37AD C6E1 0407 0361 8806
