Any hardware RAM disk that can use ECC RAM?

Wolfgang wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Mon Dec 4 11:18:55 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 11:01 +0000, Vijay Gill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a few gigabytes of RAM (Crucial make - ECC registered) lying
> around (recovered from my retired PCs) and I was thinking if I could
> use some sort of RAM disk (hardware based like a PCI card etc).
> 
> I cannot use it in my current motherboards because they require
> unbuffered non-ECC RAM.
> 
> It may be just a stupid idea but I would like to experiment with
> having swap file on such RAM disk (and if there is a battery backup,
> even the OS can live there).
> 
> I saw one such product from Gigabyte (iRAM) but it does not support
> ECC RAM. Tried googling, most of the results were about people
> complaining about iRAM not supporting ECC RAM :)
> 
> Does anybody know of such a product?
> 
> Thanks
> Vijay
> 

Correction to my last email.. It should read www.giga-byte.com.tw .

Wolf





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