Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matt Heckaman writes: : comparison to some, but I have a machine here running 512M of non-ECC for : over a year now without any ram-related problems. (HD did die once though) Without any ram-related problems that were detected you mean. without ECC or parity, you

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Matt Heckaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: : : Ouch. That is quite a lot of money, but then a shell server is : usually the sort of machine that gets pounded on the worst, and in : the worst ways -- all sorts of bizarre things that users try,

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Matt Heckaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Douglas G. Allen wrote: ... : I suggest you go look at http://www.crucial.com for memory. It's Crucial's : website, which means it's Micron memory. I think they had 256M ECC modules : for the PowerEdge listed for about $500 a pi

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Jim King
- Original Message - From: "Matt Heckaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brad Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD-STABLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 6:42 AM Subject: Re: Compatibility Question Matt Heckaman wrote: &

Re: Compatibility Question

2000-06-26 Thread Douglas G. Allen
Matt, >Interesting, I've always personally thought ECC to be somewhat overrated >and certaintly overpriced. Granted I do not have that much expierence in >comparison to some, but I have a machine here running 512M of non-ECC for >over a year now without any ram-related problems. (HD did die once