From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 23:57:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E94106568D for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:57:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CAA8FC30 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au ([203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o19NvEhf004694 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:27:14 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:27:03 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <20100209053002.GA9449@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3769514.5anNkBbL1L"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002101027.11212.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.639 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Christian Weisgerber Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:57:17 -0000 --nextPart3769514.5anNkBbL1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte > > > GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half > > > filled - 2x2Gb) > > > > > > Note that it doesn't support ECC, I don't know if that is a > > > problem. > > > > How's that? Is the BIOS just stupid, or is the board physically > > missing traces? > > Doesn't matter really, does it? > > I have a GA-MA78G-DS3H. According to the specs, it supports ECC > memory. And that is all the mention of ECC you will find anywhere. > There is nothing in the BIOS. My best guess is that they quite > literally mean that you can plug ECC memory into the board and it > will work, but that there are no provisions to actually use ECC. =46WIW I can't see ECC support listed for that board on Gigabyte's=20 website.. (vs the GA-MA770T-UD3P which does list ECC as supported -=20 DDR3 board though) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3769514.5anNkBbL1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLcfZX5ZPcIHs/zowRAlrbAJ9N3YlyV+Kai0KnsSveY0B0RNTLPwCeOdWI sx4P7erwoHjpBtYgzplFwRY= =f2Re -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3769514.5anNkBbL1L--