Freenas mini factory ram ECC check.

[Cantrepeat]

Hello all,

I was looking at the ram that comes in the mini and in the bios is says that it is indeed ECC.

However, searching around on line shows some checks you can perform in FreeBSD namely, dmidecode -t 17.

This command returns data width(dw) and total width(tw). In ecc forum the numbers should be dw 64 and tw 72 and non ecc memory should be dw 64 tw 64.

When running this check on the factory mini I'm getting 64/64 and not 64/72.

Is there a bios setting to change this?

Thanks!

 

[Ericloewe]

However, searching around on line shows some checks you can perform in FreeBSD namely, dmidecode -t 17.

That is not a reliable method, unfortunately. If the BIOS does say ECC, that should all you need, short of an actual test, which is still surprisingly elusive...