Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:35:35 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? Message-ID: <XFMail.010109103535.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101080958290.96355-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On 08-Jan-01 Chris Dillon wrote: > AFAIK, with every X86 chipset I've used at least, the correction > happens automatically, and the NMI is only there to alert you that it > has happened. Most systems will let you turn the NMI off for > corrections and only issue an NMI for an un-correctable error. IMHO it's very useful to be able to read the number of corrections.. Good for justifying the extra cost :) --- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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