From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 03:03:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4351065677 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:03:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB808FC17 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:03:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.topspin.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id FAA24310; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:03:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost.topspin.kiev.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.topspin.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1NtBRc-0009ut-Gf; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:03:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4BA58C73.90806@icyb.net.ua> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:03:15 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100211) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew D. Fuller" References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <201002081556.54782.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20100209053002.GA9449@over-yonder.net> <201002091637.52002.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20100209103228.GB9449@over-yonder.net> <4B715AC7.2090201@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4B715AC7.2090201@icyb.net.ua> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:03:22 -0000 on 09/02/2010 14:53 Andriy Gapon said the following: > on 09/02/2010 12:32 Matthew D. Fuller said the following: >> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:37:50PM +1030 I heard the voice of >> Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: >>> Probably the result of idiotic penny pinching though :-/ >> Irritating. One of my favorite parts of AMD's amd64 chips is that I >> no longer have to spend through the nose or be a detective (or, often, >> both) to get ECC. So far, it seems like there are relatively few >> hidden holes on that path, and I haven't stepped in one, but every new >> one I hear about increases my terror of the day when there are more >> holes than solid ground :( > > Yep. > For sure, Gigabyte BIOS on this board is completely missing ECC initialization > code. I mean not only the menus in setup, but the code that does memory > controller programming. > Not sure about the physical lanes though. BTW, not 100% sure if I my test method was correct, but it seems that ECC pins of DIMM sockets (CB0, CB1, etc) of my motherboard (GA-MA780G-UD3H) are not connected to anywhere. So looks like Gigabyte is saving some cents on this. -- Andriy Gapon