[SunRescue] SIMMs [was our SS2 help]

[Jonathan [no, I don't write for /.] Katz]

> You've probably figured this out already, but in case you haven't the SS2
> requires a different SIMM installation order than the other pizzabox sun4c
> systems.  Each bank consists of every fourth slot, not four contiguous
> slots.

The LXs are like this as well IIRC (I haven't had mine apart in two 
weeks, and I forgot.)

Here's something else-- the LXs take fast-paged SIMMs as well as Parity 
SIMMs. A friend, who got quite a few LXs surplus (in the 50+ category) 
found that all the LXs had fast-paged SIMMs. They work swell. (If you're 
interested, he still has quite a few and wants to get rid of them, email 
me off-list and I'll get you in touch w/ him.)

I was under the impression that just about any/all workstation hardware out
there that required 72 pin SIMMs (SGI Indys/Onyx/Challenge/Indigo/Indigo2,
Sun LX/classic/IPX, DEC Alphas, some RS/6ks) required that they be 
parity. I know the fast-paged SIMMs from the LXs didn't work in my Multia 
(DEC Alpha.)

Any thoughts?

-Jon  
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