IIRC, the AMD board I have at my office has hardware ECC scrub. I have no idea if Solaris knows about this or makes any use of it (or needs to?)
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Miles Nordin <car...@ivy.net> wrote: >>>>>> "rl" == Rob Logan <r...@logan.com> writes: > > rl> that's why this X58 MB claims ECC support: > > the claim is worth something. People always say ``AMD supports ECC > because the memory controller is in the CPU so they all support it, it > cannot be taken away from you by lying idiot motherboard manufacturers > or greedy marketers trying to segment users into different demand > groups'' but you still need some motherboard BIOS to flip the ECC > switch to ``wings stay on'' mode before you start down the runway. > > Here is a rather outdated and Linux-specific workaround for cheapo AMD > desktop boards that don't have an ECC option in their BIOS: > > http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus/2005-10/msg00365.html > http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/sw/ > > The discussion about ECC-only vs scrub-and-fix, about how to read from > PCI if ECC errors are happening (though not necessarily which stick), > and his 10-ohm testing method, is also interesting. I still don't > understand what chip-kill means. > > I remember something about a memory scrubbing kernel thread in > Solaris. This sounds like the AMD chips have a hardware scrubber? > Also how are ECC errors reported in Solaris? I guess this is getting > OT though. > > Anyway ECC is not just a feature bullet to gather up and feel good. > You have to finish the job and actually interact with it. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
