hardware for home use large storage

[Andriy Gapon]

on 09/02/2010 12:32 Matthew D. Fuller said the following:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:37:50PM +1030 I heard the voice of
> Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus:
>> Probably the result of idiotic penny pinching though :-/
> 
> Irritating.  One of my favorite parts of AMD's amd64 chips is that I
> no longer have to spend through the nose or be a detective (or, often,
> both) to get ECC.  So far, it seems like there are relatively few
> hidden holes on that path, and I haven't stepped in one, but every new
> one I hear about increases my terror of the day when there are more
> holes than solid ground   :(

Yep.
For sure, Gigabyte BIOS on this board is completely missing ECC initialization
code.  I mean not only the menus in setup, but the code that does memory
controller programming.
Not sure about the physical lanes though.

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Andriy Gapon