From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 19:39:24 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 A053516A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:39:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCDC43D5C for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:39:18 -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])i083dEqR073683; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:09:16 +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 i083dBaW000996; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:09:12 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Scott W Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:09:10 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401071731.40481.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200401081058.26112.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <3FFCCC5B.3010001@mindcore.net> In-Reply-To: <3FFCCC5B.3010001@mindcore.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401081409.10503.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,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: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 03:39:24 -0000 On Thursday 08 January 2004 13:49, Scott W wrote: > >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 :) > > You should be able to find the spec sheets at least in PDF format on > Tyans site, but from a 'summary PDF' I have locally on the 2466 (again, > not the most recent but fairly close at ~1.5yrs old): > > Memory: > 4 184 pin 2.5v DDR DIMM sockets > Supports up to 4GB of Registered PC2100 DDR Memory > Supports ECC (72 bit) memory modules Ahh interesting stuff, I will definitely take a look. Thanks for pointing it out :) > I don't recall offhand if their BIOS currently posts ECC vs non ECC as > part of their POST or not, but the presumed support is in there, or > their docs and specs are completely wrong ;-) Heh :) That's the thing about ECC, it's hard to test unless you have a known faulty memory module lying around :( > PS- heh, I actually do try to use scsi for disks when possible....for Hmm.. I get IDE disks with a 3 year warranty.. We usually need lots of space, and SCSI is not dense enough :) (120Gb in SCSI disks is expensive) > that (any actually) tape drive, isn't that what $20 Adaptec 2940s are > for? ;-) You can buy $20 2940's?! Bastard :) InitIO cards look reasonable, and there is a driver available.. -- 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