Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 20 May 1996 11:15:08 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: fake cache |
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On 20 May 1996, Raul Miller wrote:
> There's this newspaper article about people manufacturing fake cache > memory chips, and selling motherboards with these things installed. > > It would be nice to have a simple diagnostic to check for this from > inside linux.
IIRC, the 'test' is just a benchmarking program of some sort where you run it with and without the cache enabled. If you see no change, you probably have a fake cache. I doubt that there is a simple hardwware test for this, as it was designed to look real to the hardware.
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