[Badmem-users] specific memory range pattern

[Thamer Al-H. <tm...@wh...>]

Hi,

I recently installed a DDR module and it caught on fire. I later
placed it on another slot and it worked fine. Obviously the fire
broke it in several ways.

I went ahead and ran memtest86, and got a _lot_ of badmem patterns.
These specifically happen between the 312-320MB range (it's 512mb
total). The problem is the patterns are too many. I believe I cannot
give the kernel all of them on the boot command line.

Is there a way to simply specify a pattern that ignores memory
between 312 to 320MB? Is there a way to scan the memory from within
Linux and generate patterns there? Simply far too many to copy down.

I'm using the old patch for the 2.2 kernel series. I'd be willing to
upgrade and use the newer bad-mem patches if they have a capability
of simply ignoring a specific chunk of memory i specify by range.

--
Thamer Al-Harbash            http://www.whitefang.com/
"We must never forget that we are geeks, and as geeks
 we dream, and when we dream we dream of code." -- anon.