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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:03:15 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hardware for home use large storage
Message-ID:  <4BA58C73.90806@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4B715AC7.2090201@icyb.net.ua>
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>

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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



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