Re: Testing Sirius RAM card at 8MB?

[Matthew Carpenter <superpsycho@comcast.net>]

Greg Buchner wrote:
> In article <YI-dndd0tM2AHbPZRVn-uA@comcast.com>,
>  Matthew Carpenter <superpsycho@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > > I've got an 8MB RAM sirius RAM card installed and I'm beginning to think 
> > > that something isn't quite right... My iigs seems to puke on read if I 
> > > try to copy larger files or a lot of files at once.  Is there any 
> > > software for testing RAM that would work with the Sirius RAM card? The 
> > > only RAM test software I have is bit banger and it won't work with cards 
> > > capable of 8MB.
> > >
> > > -Matthew S. Carpenter
> >
> > Ok... now I can't boot GS OS off the hard drive. it keeps flashing this 
> > near the end of bootup:
> >
> > Detected trashed memory--software bug or (less likely) bad RAM.  Error $
>
>
> Take out one of the DIMMs and run Bit Banger.  Long ago it found memory 
> errors on my AE GS-RAM+ that other memory testing programs didn't.  
> (Crosstalk/bank boundary if I remember correctly.)
>
> Greg B.


From what I understand, it doesn't matter if it has more than 4MB or 
not... just that it is capable of more than 4MB that makes bit banger 
not usable.

-Matt