[SPARCbook] SparcLE Question

[Michael]

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Hello,

On Jan 3, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Gary Borgen Old wrote:

> Anyone out there have any experiance with the memory used in the
> SparcLE? Mine came with one 512MB stick and I would like to expand
> it to 1GB (or maybe 2GB).
>
>> From what I've found, the factory memory is ECC, non-registered,
>> PC133,
> SO-DIMM (144 pin).  Tough to find.
>
> The orginal manufacturer of the single memory chip I have, ATP
> Electronics, says the have some in stock, but haven't gotten back to
> me on costs (due to the holidays).
>
> In the mean time, I tried a non-ECC stick of memory and found that
> the SparcLE OBP recognized the memory.  I am reluctant to try it
> with an actual operating system, due to possible parity/ECC errors
> that may crop up.

Run test-memory a couple times, if that doesn't throw any ECC errors
you can still boot the OS single user ( so no filesystem gets mounted
write-enabled )

> So the questions are:  Can I use non-ECC memory without issues?

The firmware probably disables ECC globally when not all modules
support it.

>  Can I use registered, ECC memory, vs non-registered?

Probably not.

have fun
Michael

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