Re: NP RAM

["N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in>]

Hi,

We are buying some computers in our office, and one vendor's
quote said that the memory was "NP" SDRAM. I had asked here a few
days ago about "NP" RAM: what it is and how it relates to ECC
RAM.

Many thanks to Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org> and John
Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>, who replied saying that NP stand for
'non-parity'.

All the sources I consulted (including the Debian installation
manual) say that parity RAM is advisable for reliability. The
chipset we are going for (due to cost factors) is Intel 815e, and
this does not support either parity or ECC RAM. Intel 820 and
later chipsets apparently support parity and ECC RAM.

So right now, we have decided to make do with non-parity and
non-ECC RAM.

Thanks again for your time, Dave and John.

Best,
Raghavendra.

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