On Jul 18, 13:24, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > What's special about the RAM for a Sparcstation 5 ?
>
> They're 5 volt, buffered, parity DIMMs. The only popular system that used
> 5 volt buffered DIMMs were the old PowerMacs, which don't use parity.
>
> Even beyond that, there's something else about them. I tried using
> SPARCstation 5 DIMMs in my Apple Network Server (also wanting 5 volt
> buffered parity DIMMs) and the ANS completely refused to see them. That
> was disappointing since SS5 RAM is infinitely more abundant, but oh well.
> I haven't tried the reverse test yet (whether ANS RAM will work in the
> SS5).
Ah, I see. I had assumed they were SIMMS, but I'd never opened up a SS5.
How many pins on the DIMMs?
And I see there was some prolonged discussion about the right DIMMs to use
in Sunblades, on the Sun newsgroups recently. They seem to be a bit of a
minefield. I know the ones SGI use in, eg O2s, are "odd" as well.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Wed Jul 18 2001 - 17:03:29 BST