Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:43:31 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) To: jas@flyingfox.com Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: motherboard and Ethernet card recommendations Message-ID: <v02140b0aad7fa314a525@[206.104.22.180]>
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At 8:25 AM 3/27/96, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: >Wasn't there some talking about buggy UMC chips on that board? Or >does the ...TP4N board use different chips than the ...TP4XE? > >And, BTW, does anyone know if their just-to-be released Motherboards >with the 430HX (aka Triton-2) use any buggy chips? I'm about to buy >one of those when they've arrived the local dealers. I checked >http://192.72.126.1/Products/spec.html and found nothing apparent. >Nice pictures, though! I've been thinking about a 430HX too. My thinking is NOT to buy a Triton-I because the it doesn't support parity memory while the Triton-II one-ups the parity checkers by adding ECC. I'll do without EDO memory any day for parity check or ECC. Have never seen parity-EDO memory for sale. About 5 years ago I was running a 12 machine SGI installation. (9) 4D/320GTX, (1) 4D/340S, and (2) 4D/380S. All had either 64M or 128M of ECC memory (in 1M SIMMs). One lemon had a corrected single-bit parity error about twice per day. Never crashed claiming the problem was parity. Uptimes were the same as the other machines, typically months. Only one machine never had a parity error (that I know of). Today I have a memory failure phobia. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison
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