From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 14:51:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C2637B401 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (217-ip-163.nccn.net [209.79.217.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F59843F3F for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:51:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7GLojM7024139; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:50:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200308162150.h7GLojM7024139@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:50:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis To: oberman@es.net In-Reply-To: <20030816213016.A94015D08@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: bob@boulderlabs.com cc: dgw@liwest.at cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange things going on with 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:51:17 -0000 On 16 Aug, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:48:02 -0700 (PDT) >> From: Don Lewis >> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> >> On 11 Aug, Robert Gray wrote: >> > Until I hear otherwise, I'll continue to spend extra >> > for the redundant, error-checking memories. >> >> Me too, but I've found there is a distinct lack of ECC capable >> motherboards for the newer versions of the AMD Athlon XP. > > OK. Are yo aware of ANY Athlon XP (Socket A) mobo that supports ECC > PC2700 or PC3200 memory with a 333 or 400 MHz FSB? I have been looking > and have found ZIP! I find if hard to believe that there is not enough > market, but I am starting to wonder. None that I'm aware of. The documentation for the older VIA chipsets claimed that they supported of ECC, but I never found a motherboard with one of these chipsets that supported ECC, and the last time I checked, the chipset documentation was only available to VIA's "parters" under NDA. The only Athlon motherboards that I found with ECC support were the AMD 760 and 761, and those don't support anything faster than PC2100. I've been wanting to drop a note to AMD's marketing department that they should lean on their chipset and motherboard suppliers to get them to support ECC RAM if they want to be taken seriously in a somewhat higher end market that cares about data integrity. I suspect that AMD wants to migrate this part of the market to the Hammer.