[SunRescue] OK, I am confused now

[Mike Nicewonger]

Very cool!

This means I have a ton of memory for the LX/Classics I have!!

<bullhorn voice>: "step away from the crack pipe!!

Mike Just grins......

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "jcarver" <jcarver at ipns.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] OK, I am confused now


> Hi Mike,
>
> I believe the terms single sided and two sided simms originated when the
> current
> chip technology was such that 1 meg, 4 meg, and 16 meg simms were in fact
> populated on only "1 side". 2 meg, 8 meg and 32 meg simms were fabbed with
> chips that required using both sides of the simm board. Most LX's will see
32
> meg
> parity simms in mem slots 1 and 2, while the other 4 only work with 4 or
16 meg
>
> simms. With this arraignment you can get 128 megs of mem in an LX. The
terms
> "single sided" and "dual sided" today, usually refer to amount of mem on
the
> board
> rather than actual chip count.
>
>                                                         jim
>
> Mike Nicewonger wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have always been told that an LX cannot have two sided memory in
anything
> > other than bank one. Well I just put 6 pieces of IPX memory, 33 bit 17
chip
> > OEM Sun, SIMMs in the box and well it works, it sees all 96 megs. Have I
> > been puffing on my crack pipe too long?
> >
> > Mike N
> >
> > Lottery: a tax on those bad at math.
> >
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