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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:18:14 -0600 (CST)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org>, Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>
Subject:   Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101091210590.15567-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010109094832.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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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.  :-)


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