Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/16/01:32:29
Winfried Salomon wrote:
> This seems to be an disadvantage, but I only need to allocate the
> block at the beginning and i don't free it, so it should work. The
> program shall test the Ram, because I have problems with SIMMs. Years
> ago I have written such a program in Fortran77, it *must* work in C! I
> want to write test patterns in this block and think about an array to
> fill and verify it. The address of the memory cell should be offset +
> index.
If you'd rather not reinvent the wheel, there is a nice memory tester
called memtest86. You put it on a floppy and boot, so it sees raw
memory and is OS-independent.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/memtest86-1.4a.tar.gz
Extract the file image.bin, put it on a floppy using rawrite
(ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/install/rawrite3.{com,doc}),
and boot from it. Then leave it there for a while.
--
Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com
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