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- From: robinson@jetsun.Eng.Sun.COM (David Robinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun 4/380 memory
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 03:43:59 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA USA
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- Distribution: usa
- Message-ID: <lm6ofvINNh51@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1993Jan17.182009.28648@netsys.com> <1993Jan19.224444.17892@siemens.com>
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- Keywords: simms sun4
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- In article <1993Jan19.224444.17892@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
- <>I have obtained a 4/300 cpu board that I might be buying. The cpu has no memory,
- <>and I need to get some memory to test it. What kind does it use?
- <
- <Normal 9-bit simms, 80ns or faster.
- <
- <>Also, using 4 meg simms, it appears to hold 32 meg. Do I have to populate it
- <>all?
- <
- <There are two banks of four; you have to fill a bank at a time. The board
- <came from the factory strapped for 1M simms -- there's a labeled but
- <undocumented jumper somewhere on the board that you can set to use 4M simms.
-
- Actually the banks are 8 simms each and must be populated 8 at a time,
- so you get either 8M or 32M depending if you use 1M or 4M simms.
-
- -David
-