From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 12:53:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4AA1065670 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:53:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EAA8FC17 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id OAA12694; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:53:28 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4B715AC7.2090201@icyb.net.ua> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:53:27 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew D. Fuller" 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> In-Reply-To: <20100209103228.GB9449@over-yonder.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:53:44 -0000 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. -- Andriy Gapon