On May 8, 17:34, Robert Schaefer wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Corda Albert J DLVA" <CordaAJ_at_nswc.navy.mil>
> > on one side of the simm. Did someone already mention that
> > you can only have 1 bank of 4Mb simms in a system, due to
> > a prom bug? There is no restriction on the number of other size
> > simms.
>
> Isn't that just the Indy, or something? I remember reading it, but it
> didn't (that I recall) mention the 4D/35. That does jive with the only
> machine that has 4MB simms in it though-- only one bank (four SIMMS).
No, Indys can use any mix of 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB SIMMS, and they (and
Indigo2 and R4000 Indigo) take standard 72-pin fastpage-mode parity SIMMs.
There's a bug in the ASIC (according to SGI) on the 64-pin proprietary
SIMMs which means you can use any number of 2MB or 8MB SIMMs but only one
set of 4MB SIMMs on a 4D/35 or R3000 Indigo.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu May 09 2002 - 02:06:39 BST