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On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Bradley Taylor wrote:

> Has anyone tried putting regular ECC memory into a DPT controller?  Do
> you *have* to buy DPT's memory to get ECC protection?

  If you put parity memory in, you get basic parity protection.  That
is what I use.

  DPT's ECC memory is not your normal ECC memory.  Plus, it isn't useful
unless you are planing to low-level format your drives with a different
sector size.  Unless you have high-end drives, you won't even be able to
do this.

Tom


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