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?

