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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!sun446.nas.nasa.gov!thompson From: thompson@sun446.nas.nasa.gov (Keith C. Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Parity SIMMS really necessary? Date: 5 Dec 1995 22:09:20 GMT Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4a2fug$b0u@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <49lbnr$4fq@interport.net> <49qabp$efi@zuul.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun446.nas.nasa.gov In article <49qabp$efi@zuul.nmti.com> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <49lbnr$4fq@interport.net> David Tay <davidtay@interport.net> wrote: >> I'm currently using FreeBSD with parity simms. There's a $50-$100 >> difference with parity SIMMs. I would like to save some money and use >> non-parity SIMMs. > >I'm obviously naive. I had no idea they even *made* non-parity SIMMs. > >The whole idea of putting that much memory in a box without at *least* >parity (and preferably ECC) makes me sick in the stomach. It's gotten worse. There are few true parity SIMMs being sold these days. Almost all of the "parity" SIMMs that I have seen in the big computer places around the Bay Area are non parity SIMMs with a parity generator. It really sucks when your mother board uses the opposite parity..... At least the BIOS on most mother boards these days can be configured to ignore the parity. This allows one to use non parity SIMMs. - Keith