Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:27:03 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <201002101027.11212.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <hkskbh$11gk$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <20100209053002.GA9449@over-yonder.net> <hkskbh$11gk$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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--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 <fullermd@over-yonder.net> 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--
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