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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:58:26 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Scott W <wegster@mindcore.net>
Cc:        yurtesen@ispro.net.tr
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD
Message-ID:  <200401081058.26112.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3FFCA255.4000806@mindcore.net>
References:  <200401071731.40481.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200401081007.03430.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <3FFCA255.4000806@mindcore.net>

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On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:50, Scott W wrote:
> >It certainly irritates the crap out of me that you can't seem to buy an
> > ECC board that will fit a modern Athlon in it :(
>
> I'm pretty sure the current line from Tyan does.  I've got an S2466
> which isn't the most current (266 MHz FSB, although the FSB ratings are
> truly misleading IMHO) which supports up to Athlon MP 2800+ CPUs SMP, or
> single Athlon XPs, with a gig of ECC RAM in it as we speak.  I haven't
> been completely thrilled with Tyan, primarily due to their pretty
> limited BIOS and seeming incinations to not release many updates for
> their boards, but it works well enough....I'm sure the 'replacement' to
> the 2466 will continue to handle ECC any any decent server board will
> (even if for some reason the 2466 doesn't have onboard SCSI :-( )

I don't WANT onboard SCSI so that suits me :)

WD1200JB drives are more than sufficient for my needs, about the only time we 
need SCSI is when we have to ship a tape drive, and it shits me to pay 
through to nose just to talk to a tape drive at 6Mb/sec :(

Are you sure the board supports it? I mean I have non-ECC checking 
motherboards with ECC RAM in them, and they work fine, but it isn't that 
useful :)

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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