From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 14 09:52:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA23455 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 09:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA23450; Tue, 14 May 1996 09:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA04309; Tue, 14 May 1996 09:41:05 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199605141641.JAA04309@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Triton chipset with 256k cache caches 32M only? To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 09:41:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, blh@nol.net, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605141313.JAA07905@Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at "May 14, 96 09:13:28 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > J Wunsch writes: > > > As Brett L. Hawn wrote: > > > > I would highly suggest getting some of the new > > > ASUS (just my particular favorite) tr-2 chipset motherboards, these solve > > > the caching problem along with many of the other inherent bugs of tr-1 > > > chipsets. > > > They even can do ECC now if you're using parity SIMMs! > > > (About to get my new board into service by tomorrow or thursday. :) > > I'd really like to do ECC, I just don't have the money for it right > now. So does this ECC work the same as the ECC on DEC Alphas? On the Alphas, > you put in 5M for every 4M of addressable ram. Is there a fifth simm slot on > these motherboards where a non ECC capable motherboard would have 4? No, this does not work the way you describe the Alpha working. You simply use 72 pin x 36 bit simms in pairs. 64 bits of data requires 8 bits to do ECC _OR_ byte parity. There is a setting in the BIOS that allows you to choose either ECC mode or Parity mode. Choosing ECC gives you the warm fuzzies, but it costs you 10 to 15% in memory bandwidth. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD