From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 9 10:18:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5CE37B6A3; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17785; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:18:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:18:14 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: John Baldwin Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , David Kelly , FreeBSD Chat List , Francisco Reyes Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > So, if I understand what is in isa_nmi() correctly, it should be > > possible to find out which NMIs a particular chipset is going to throw > > when a correctable ECC error has ocurred, and when a non-correctable > > error has ocurred. I also assume there is no "standard" for this, or > > we would have already done it. :-) > > This is correct. :) There does not seem to be a standard > unfortunately, though I do think that Paul Saab (ps@FreeBSD.org) > has been working on this some. It LOOKS simple enough, but looks are always deceiving. I'll take a shot at it if someone can point me at some documentation for the Intel 440BX and the RCC ServerWorks chipsets (hopefully NOT under NDA), which are the two chipsets I use in most of my FreeBSD boxen. I'll nose around on Intel's developer site and on the ServerWorks site to see if they have any info. I can already forsee one problem, though... How would I TEST it? I don't have any flaky ECC memory lying around. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message