[rescue] SPARCclassic bits

Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. rescue at hawkmountain.net
Fri Oct 19 20:17:03 CDT 2007


Mike Hebel wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski wrote:
>
>   
>> If I recall correctly, you need 36-bit memory, I have 4x16 MB,  
>> which were
>> working fine in IPX.- watchdog problem is possibly because your NVRAM
>> is dying, and might be completely unrelated to memory.
>>     
>
> You are correct - 36 bit memory is required on those boxes.  I might  
> even have some of the size in question but I can't swear to it.
>
> As for the NVRAM I've had to replace those (0) in almost every sun4c  
> machine I've ever owned so it's quite likely that it'd dying.
>
> Mike Hebel
> (0) I didn't really replace them I just reprogrammed them after a  
> dremel and battery adding session.
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I'm pretty sure the Classic/LX only needs 33 bit.  IIRC my LXs/Classics only
have 33 bit wide memory in them (sun part number memory).

-- Curt



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