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. > > 1) 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. > > 2) 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) > > 3) 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
