From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 08:17:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51E916A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from post.web.ca (post.web.ca [192.139.37.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7310643D53 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:17:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rob@web.ca) Received: by post.web.ca (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 94EA3643E; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:17:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:17:53 -0500 From: Rob Ellis To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040330161753.GA22072@web.ca> References: <20040326183405.GD34158@web.ca> <20040329135228.A38644@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040329135228.A38644@cons.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Motherboard w/ ECC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:17:54 -0000 On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:52:28PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Rob Ellis wrote on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:34:06PM -0500: > > How important is ECC ram for a FreeBSD server? We've gone with Asus > > motherboards in the past, but most new ones don't support ECC... > > > > If ECC is important, any recommendations for a motherboard that supports > > AMD Athlon + ECC? > > The Intel 875 chipset supports it, 865 and below do not. > > I have this mainboard in my server: ASUS P4C800-E DELUXE and two > Kingston KVR400X72C3A/512 modules. Runs fine in dual-channel and ECC. Thanks, I think we're going to get one of these. I was hoping to use AMD cpu, but Intel is ok. :-) I found this Linux ECC monitoring project page that lists chipsets that support ECC... http://www.anime.net/~goemon/linux-ecc/ - Rob