[SunHELP] Sparc IPX RAM question

[Doug McLaren]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 11:00:23AM -0700, Beaker wrote:

| I've acquired a Sparc IPX box which needs some RAM & a NVRAM chip. The
| hardware info pages at SunHelp list the RAM as "4M or 16M x 33 72-pin
| SIMMs". Would any PC 72-pin SIMMs of this size work (ie Fast Page; EDO;
| 60ns/70ns)?

As long as they're parity (which is sort of rare, but not unheard of),
yes.

| I'm assuming that the odd number of bits means the IPX does
| parity checking, right?

Yup.

| Also, is the NVRAM chip different from that of a Sparc 1+/2 (they're
| both sun4c arch, though different sized boards; not sure whether
| clock speed would matter)?

No, it's the same.  You'll need to go through the NVRAM faq to set it
up -- but get it first :)

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Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzy.com
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