Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 02:32:41 +0300 (EET DST) From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ram w/o parity.. Message-ID: <199604302332.CAA05180@cantina.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: Brandon Gillespie's message of 1 May 1996 00:53:40 %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960430134125.8575A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.960430134125.8575A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com> Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com> writes:
I am in grey area here, in my own experience, so I am dropping back to
the pool of knowledge on this list. I am building a FreeBSD internet box
and I have some decisions. If a motherboard can handle RAM w/o parity,
should one just get sims without parity? Is there any OS level impact or
possible problem? I'm running FreeBSD on a dell PC for my work station,
and it is running without parity. However, we have had problems running
unixware on a PC w/o parity (we are actually a mac reseller, which is why
we have so much ram w/o parity :)
If you are going to use the machine for serious work, the cost of 36 bit
memory will probably pay itself back with less data loss. In particular if
you use a lot of memory.
ASUS already has triton-II board out (ECC, not just parity!) and FreeBSD
runs on it without problems (well, only one machine for about a week this
far :). I haven't tried Intel boards as they require special box which
wasn't available from anyone yet, ASUS goes into standard enclosure.
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