From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 23 14:27:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6257737B409 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA00357; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:27:37 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:27:37 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Bryan-TheBS-Smith Cc: Matthew Jacob , Aaron , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: looking for ia32 system that supports > 4GB memory and has 64 bit PCI Message-ID: <20010823152737.A255@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20010823195400.A3CD837B401@hub.freebsd.org> <20010823143508.A99255@panzer.kdm.org> <3B856B07.1FF654F@ieee.org> <20010823145229.A99674@panzer.kdm.org> <3B857172.77E73060@ieee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3B857172.77E73060@ieee.org>; from b.j.smith@ieee.org on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:11:14PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 17:11:14 -0400, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > That's fine, there are plenty of other systems that can use > > registered ECC memory. > > What systems? I don't know many that can use registered ECC memory, > other than the older i440BX/GX ones. And then the i440BX is limited > to 256MB/DIMM and i440GX is limited to 512MB/DIMM. Pretty much any Serverworks chipset board uses registered ECC memory. Tyan, ASUS, Supermicro, Dell, IBM and Intel all ship Serverworks chipset boards. It also works on the Alpha (XP1000) and Compaq Blazer (ia64) systems I've got. > > What's your point here, anyway? > > Just making sure you "did your homework." You did. I'm glad my "homework" meets with your approval. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message