Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:53:27 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <4B715AC7.2090201@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20100209103228.GB9449@over-yonder.net> 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>
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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
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