Mike,<div><br></div><div>Why play around with bad RAM. If you expect more of it to fail, why take the chance that it might hose something important during a write to the HDD. Pretty much all RAM has lifetime warranty these days. If it is name brand such as Kingston, Crucial, etc. just type in the part number in the manufacturer's web site and see if it is covered. Get your new RAM for the cost of mailing in the bad stuff. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, buy at least a decent power strip if not a UPS that has the $ coverage for any attached device and your whole system is covered should something else get fried.</div><div><br></div><div> </div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:22 PM, David A. Merritt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmerritt@comcast.net">dmerritt@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 9 May 2011, Michael Trausch wrote:<br>
<br>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:13, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> <a href="http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/" target="_blank">http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/</a><br>
><br>
> You assume I can compile a kernel. :-)<br>
><br>
> Sorry, can't do that.<br>
><br>
> At least, not until I can find a way to disable this area of RAM.<br>
> Building anything sizeable will result in an ICE from GCC ATM.<br>
<br>
</div>How about this boot option:<br>
<br>
memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]<br>
[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.<br>
Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.<br>
Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff<br>
memmap=64K$0x18690000<br>
or<br>
memmap=0x10000$0x18690000<br>
<br>
-dam<br>
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