[SunRescue] (no subject)

[Mike Nicewonger]

>On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
>
>> I do not know the other company. Be sure that when you buy RAM for the
beast
>> is it true parity (very important)(avoid the 3 chip kind) and 80 ns or
>
>This is a popular misconception (the 9 chip requirement).  Some 3 chip
>SIMMs have marginal DRAM refresh timing and will have problems.  Most
>"quality" 3 chip RAM (Samsung/Hitachi/NEC/etc) works fine.

You are once again correct James! I have had trouble with 3 chip SIMM's
before. Unknown make, never even bothered to look at mfgr. just would not
work. swaped out......you get the idea.


>Sun themselves shipped 3 chip 4MB SIMMs for the Sparc 2 and 4/600.  I'd
>take a barcoded 3 chip SIMM over a generic 9 chip any day.
>

Of course I would take a Sun barcoded SIMM any day over non-barcoded.

Mike N