[SunRescue] Usenet: SUN 330 Free to good home

James Lockwood rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Mar 6 15:33:53 CST 2001


On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, [iso-8859-1] kebabthesheep wrote:

> --- Dave Reader <dave at undone.org.uk> wrote: > 
> > Memory is 8x 30pin simm sockets on the CPU card - these can only be 1Mb
> > each when the 4/300 cpu is used in the 330 system - and upto two memory
> > boards in the 3U slots, which take 16x 30pin simms each - 1 or 4Mb.
> 
> Um, I have 32Mb in *mine* on the mainboard, as 8x4Mb, and NO expansion boards.  It seems to work
> just fine, reporting 32Mb of ram at the monitor, and in sunos4.1.

To clarify: it depends on PROM revision.  4MB SIMMs on the mainboard
require 3.0.1 minimum, I believe.

You also need to set a jumper next to the SIMM slots.

-James




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