[rescue] Re: mixing SM61 and SM71 modules

Kevin kevin at pipeline.com
Fri Nov 29 19:59:02 CST 2002


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Thus far they would appear to work fine, although like
you i ave not put them through the paces.  I'm just
waiting to receive a couple of SM81s so it's just
temporary anyway i was really just curious if this was
an "acceptable" configuration or not.

Thanks,
/KRM

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:07:32 -0800 (PST)
Robert Novak <rnovak at indyramp.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Kevin wrote:
> 
> > I slapped an SM71 (501-3001) in with an SM61
> > (501-2519).  Both of these modules have 1 meg cache
> > and both cache controllers have the same MAJOR
> > revision number.  One is a SuperSPARC and the other
> > a SuperSPARC II.  Based on what i have read, these
> > modules should work fine together in my SS20 and
> > thus far they seem to.  My only question is, when
> > the machine boots up is says "(2 x SuperSPARC II)",
> > when of course in reality only the SM71 is a II. 
> > Is this a problem or is this normal?
> 
> Does the system work? If so, it's probably not a
> problem.
> 
> I've mixed SM61 and SM81 in my SS1000E without
> problems. I didn't push them tothe limit to see if
> there were any issues, but it worked pretty well.
> Right now the box is gathering dust with 3 SM81s and
> 1408MB of RAM in it :)
> 
> Rob
> 
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