----- "stephen mulcahy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 on both counts. > > I hope some vendor(s) are reading this. Readng BIOS settings (never > mind writing them) is a total pain at the moment. It'd be great to > see a tool for doing this in a human-readable fashion. Amen - it drove me nuts when we realised that the SuperMicro BIOS upgrade for Barcelona chips had disabled ECC on all our nodes - being able to fix that from Linux would have been great, rather than having to do each of the 95 nodes by hand.. At least now our periodic health checks will spot ECC disabled in case they do this again! This is the trick we use for that: dmidecode | grep -A7 "Physical Memory Array" | grep "Error Correction" If that says "None" then there's no ECC goodness for you.. cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
