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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.
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On 07/26/14 15:55, walt wrote:
> On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> [894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error
>> detected on the NB.
>> [894019.770084] EDAC MC0: 1 CE on mc#0csrow#2channel#0 (csrow:2
>> channel:0 page:0x2aa6ce offset:0xc60 grain:0 syndrome:0x63e1)
>> [894019.770090] [Hardware Error]: Error Status: Corrected error, no
>> action required.
>> [894019.770098] [Hardware Error]: CPU:0 (10:4:2)
>> MC4_STATUS[-|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|CECC]: 0x9c70c00063080a13
>> [894019.770105] [Hardware Error]: MC4_ADDR: 0x00000002aa6cec60
>> [894019.770110] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: MEM,
>> mem-tx: RD, part-proc: RES (no timeout)
>>
>> and this, my children, is why I am using ECC ram.
>>
>> Using zfs showed me, that there are errors that the system does not
>> catch but corrupts data.
>>
>> And this evening, with a thunderstorm outside I got that beauty above...
>
> Is ECC memory a drop-in replacement for ordinary RAM, or does it need
> a special motherboard?
>
>
>
>
   yeah, requires a motherboard that supports ECC ram.