[rescue] Re: mixing SM61 and SM71 modules

Robert Novak rnovak at indyramp.com
Sat Nov 30 01:07:32 CST 2002


On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Kevin wrote:

> I slapped an SM71 (501-3001) in with an SM61 (501-2519).  Both of
> these modules have 1 meg cache and both cache controllers have the
> same MAJOR revision number.  One is a SuperSPARC and the other a
> SuperSPARC II.  Based on what i have read, these modules should work
> fine together in my SS20 and thus far they seem to.  My only question
> is, when the machine boots up is says "(2 x SuperSPARC II)", when of
> course in reality only the SM71 is a II.  Is this a problem or is this
> normal?

Does the system work? If so, it's probably not a problem.

I've mixed SM61 and SM81 in my SS1000E without problems. I didn't push
them tothe limit to see if there were any issues, but it worked pretty
well. Right now the box is gathering dust with 3 SM81s and 1408MB of RAM
in it :)

Rob

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