Apparently ASUS intends to embed linux on every motherboard (not just
server motherboards) so maybe we are seeing the end of messing with
BIOS. <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/173220">http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/173220</a><br>
Peter<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/14/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert G. Brown</b> <<a href="mailto:rgb@phy.duke.edu">rgb@phy.duke.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On Wed, 14 May 2008, David Mathog wrote:<br>
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Greg Lindahl <<a href="mailto:lindahl@pbm.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lindahl@pbm.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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The AMD servers I've been buying default to ECC off. I figure that<br>
anyone who doesn't care enough to go through the BIOS and find things<br>
like this deserves what they get.<br>
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I agree, although sometimes going through the BIOS isn't an option...<br>
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I agree with both you, but if you're building a big cluster, it is a<br>
real PITA to have to hook up every system with a KVM and reset a BIOS<br>
option. Can't you get the vendor to do that for you before delivery?<br>
One would think that if you buy systems with ECC memory, the vendor<br>
"should" configure the bios to use it. No?<br>
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rgb<br><span class="sg">
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