On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 23:10 +0530, Niklaus wrote:
Hi,
I have access to a remote linux machine. I have a root account on it. I need to know whether the installed RAM is SDRAM or DDRAM. Unfortunately i will be going to the site next month when i have to upgrade the machine with more capacity. Few of them are hardware related but if you know the answer please help me.
- How do i find out when the machine is online , if it is SDRAM or
DDRAM. I tried dmidecode utility but i was not sure about the type. Can someone help me out by pasting the output for both DDR and SDRAM in dmidecode or similar.
- Can both SDRAM and DDRAM be present at a time in the same
motherboard. I mean can i have 256MB of SDRAM chip and a 256 MB of DDRAM on the same motherboard.
No.
If yes what are the conditions.
In new(er) boards lm_sensors might have the information. Try running sensors-detect (as root)
- Is a motherboard designed for only one type of RAM , like if we
remove all the SDRAMs can we put DDR in it or it is either designed for DDR or SDRAM.
Each motherboard (or even CPU) is designed for a certain memory type. You cannot add DDR PC3200 to an SDRAM board. You cannot even add ECC/Registered DDR memory to an unbuffered DDR board.
Regards Nik
Do you know the machine specs?
- Gilboa