From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 27 18:43:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA23160 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 18:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [204.214.4.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA23155 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 18:43:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from max7-173.HiWAAY.net by fly.HiWAAY.net; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id AA07251; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:43:20 -0600 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:43:31 -0600 To: jas@flyingfox.com From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Subject: Re: motherboard and Ethernet card recommendations Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 8:25 AM 3/27/96, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: >Wasn't there some talking about buggy UMC chips on that board? Or >does the ...TP4N board use different chips than the ...TP4XE? > >And, BTW, does anyone know if their just-to-be released Motherboards >with the 430HX (aka Triton-2) use any buggy chips? I'm about to buy >one of those when they've arrived the local dealers. I checked >http://192.72.126.1/Products/spec.html and found nothing apparent. >Nice pictures, though! I've been thinking about a 430HX too. My thinking is NOT to buy a Triton-I because the it doesn't support parity memory while the Triton-II one-ups the parity checkers by adding ECC. I'll do without EDO memory any day for parity check or ECC. Have never seen parity-EDO memory for sale. About 5 years ago I was running a 12 machine SGI installation. (9) 4D/320GTX, (1) 4D/340S, and (2) 4D/380S. All had either 64M or 128M of ECC memory (in 1M SIMMs). One lemon had a corrected single-bit parity error about twice per day. Never crashed claiming the problem was parity. Uptimes were the same as the other machines, typically months. Only one machine never had a parity error (that I know of). Today I have a memory failure phobia. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison