From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 15:37:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EABC16A4CE; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:37:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D898F43D45; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp108-195.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.108.195])i07Nb6ZC054549; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:07:08 +1030 (CST) Received: from chowder.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i07Nb3aW098873; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:07:04 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Don Lewis Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:07:03 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401071731.40481.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200401070818.i078IF7E015950@gw.catspoiler.org> <20040107232318.GB64718@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040107232318.GB64718@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401081007.03430.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.7 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:37:17 -0000 On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:53, David O'Brien wrote: > > or so ago was very reasonably priced at the time and performs well. My > > suspicion is that the recent lack of ECC support may be due to AMD > > wanting to move "serious" users over to their new 64 bit architecture. > > No, the problem is AMD isn't updating the 761 chipset to do 333 or 400 > FSB -- thus few want to use that chip set today. AMD is not presureing > VIA, ALI, nVidia, etc... to not produce ECC supporting motherboards. Double negative? :) 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 :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5