[SunHELP] Re: [SunRescue] SPARC 5 memory

[James]

8 slots, max 32m per slot, 8 meg dimms to the back of the bunch and a max
of 256M.

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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Paul Khoury wrote:

> Okay, I finally made the plunge and bought a SS5/70 off ebay last week dirt cheap
> (like less than 30 bucks).  Anyways, I don't know if it has RAM or not, it was just really cheap.
> Do I need to make a lot of dramatic changes for upgrading from an SS2 (sun4c) to this machine
> (sun4m)?  I'd rather not upgrade the OS with all the mods I've made, plus it'll be my main webserver (and
> I'm hosting other peoples' stuff now also).
> 
> Also, how much RAM can you go up to on this machine, and how many slots are on the board?
> And does anyone know where I can get RAM?  I found 32MB on eBay for 25 bucks each.
> Is that reasonable, or can I get them cheaper?  I'd like to go up to 128MB, 256MB or more would
> be very desireable (my ThinkPad alone is gonna be upgraded to 544MB this week).
> 
> Paul
> 
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