[SunRescue] Re: New SS10

[Chris Powell]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:26:31 +0100 (BST), Steve Doyle wrote:

> 	Picked up an ss10 very cheap the other day, got the box and it
> isnt in bad nick at all, even cleaned up well :)
> 
> 	One snag though - it only has 16M of ram, fine think I as I have
> some spare ram from a sparc 20 which I thought would work fine. Sadly this
> is not the case though, but I was fairly sure that the ram for the sparc
> 10 and 20 were fairly interchangable. Is this not the case?

Check the DIMMs are in the correct slots (SS10 hardware manual available
at docs.sun.com, or the hardware FAQ). I believe the SS10 is fussy about
which slot RAM is in. I managed to put a DIMM in the wrong slot once and
though OpenBoot recognised the RAM, booting SunOS bombed.

32MB DIMMs do work if OpenBoot is v2.25 (or possibly other later versions).
When I tried 32MB DIMMs in v2.7 and v2.9 OpenBoot they were recognised as
16MB, upgrading OpenBoot to v2.25 the same DIMMs were correctly recognised
as 32MB.


Chris.