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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!pagesat.net!napoleon.dbeach.com.!usenet From: David Albany <hanz@mail.dbeach.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: Can I mix memory speeds Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 01:53:27 -0700 Organization: V-Soccer Lines: 32 Message-ID: <31DA3507.1C77@mail.dbeach.com> References: <4rbvq2$34i@news.enterprise.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dbmd011.dbeach.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) To: sparky@enterprise.net sparky@enterprise.net wrote: > > I currently have the following setup.... > > Tyan Titan III Motherboard > P120 > 16 Mb 60ns Ram > > ...and I run Os/2 warp, Linux (slakware 2.3), Freebsd v2.1 and WIn '95 (Yes I know > I'm greedy ;-)). I want to upgrade to 32Mb and have a good offer on some RAM > but its 60ns EDO-RAM. > Will this cause problems for me? Has anyone else mixed EDO & non-EDO RAM with > any of these OS's?? I know on Os/2 2.1 there was the possibility of a TRAP 0E error > is this the same on Warp ?? > > Any known problems on the hardware?? I'm about to E-mail Tyan directly, but I > would still like to hear from the people who count.....the users. > > I would appreciate e-mails as well as posting so that I get any responses ASAP. > > Thanks in advance > > SteveHad a web server (FreeBSD 2.1R) with 64 MB of RAM. When we added another 64 MB it kept on crashing every time any body tried to run a command (Any). The new ram was of the same speed. The problem was solved by replacing the new RAM with another 64 MB that was from the same manufacturer and had the same speed and so on. This led us to conclude that even a littel difference in speed (as is the case between different manufacurers) would lead to problems. I just thought I let you know this. PS: If our conclusions are wrong please let us know for we would love to know what happened to that server. It was either this or a group of eviel sprits lived in it for the time it had that particular RAM in it.