From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 16:33:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA23050 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (root@hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA23045 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cantina.clinet.fi (root@cantina.clinet.fi [194.100.0.15]) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.7.5/8.6.4) with ESMTP id CAA10808; Wed, 1 May 1996 02:32:42 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (hsu@localhost) by cantina.clinet.fi (8.7.3/8.6.4) id CAA05180; Wed, 1 May 1996 02:32:41 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 02:32:41 +0300 (EET DST) Message-Id: <199604302332.CAA05180@cantina.clinet.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: Brandon Gillespie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Brandon Gillespie's message of 1 May 1996 00:53:40 +0300 Subject: Re: ram w/o parity.. Organization: Clinet Ltd, Espoo, Finland References: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article Brandon Gillespie writes: I am in grey area here, in my own experience, so I am dropping back to the pool of knowledge on this list. I am building a FreeBSD internet box and I have some decisions. If a motherboard can handle RAM w/o parity, should one just get sims without parity? Is there any OS level impact or possible problem? I'm running FreeBSD on a dell PC for my work station, and it is running without parity. However, we have had problems running unixware on a PC w/o parity (we are actually a mac reseller, which is why we have so much ram w/o parity :) If you are going to use the machine for serious work, the cost of 36 bit memory will probably pay itself back with less data loss. In particular if you use a lot of memory. ASUS already has triton-II board out (ECC, not just parity!) and FreeBSD runs on it without problems (well, only one machine for about a week this far :). I haven't tried Intel boards as they require special box which wasn't available from anyone yet, ASUS goes into standard enclosure. -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@clinet.fi mobile +358-40-5519679 work +358-0-4375360 fax -4555276 home -8031121