From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 7 6: 4: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F3537B402 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 06:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoraida.reyes.somos.net (zoraida.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.15]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA61611; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 08:59:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 09:07:52 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes To: David Kelly Cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? In-Reply-To: <200101070506.f0756as07326@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, David Kelly wrote: > Unless a memory chip fails catastrophically, its hard to find the errant > chip. When they go bad they usually start logging an ECC correction > every day or two. Where does that get reported? As I understand ECC is handled by the motherboard. > As for MBs? The new VIA KT133 does *not* do ECC (Asus A7V) but am told > the older KX133 does. Do you know by any chance which motherboards use the old KX133? Doesn't this affect sales of Athlon CPUs for servers? After all that has been historically the market for ECC. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message