[rescue] Re:serial expansion question

Mike Nicewonger twmaster at twmaster.com
Sun Feb 17 00:29:34 CST 2002


> Boy, I'm increasingly realizing how hard it is to find Sun information.  For
> instance, the Sun Hardware Faq says that IPXs take 72pin simms, but that
> the classic takes 60ns simms.  Now, I know that the simms in the classic
> are 72pins.  So, I suppose this means that classic ram would work in the
> IPX.  But, the real question is, would the IPX ram work in the classic?
> This is of high interest since the IPX has 64megs of ram, and all it has
> to do is run NetBSD to operate a bootserver, which would work fine on less
> ram, but if I'm to put Solaris 8 on a classic, well, it needs all the ram
> it can get.
> 
I have used IPX memory in theclassic/LX the good news is that all three
machines can use common full parity 72 pin memory.

Mike N



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