[SunRescue] sparc 5 memory...

[Björn Ramqvist]

They are not (I repeat, they are NOT) 72-pin SIMMs in the SPARCstation 4
or 5.
It's 168 pins (or something) DIMMs.

/Bjorn - in a hurry

kebabthesheep wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> After contacting a mate at sun uk, I was told that the sparc5 takes ordinary jedec dimms, of 4x72
> pin format.  It uses 64 bits of the 72 for data, and 2 for parity.  He also said, that he has used
> PC memory in a sparc5 and visa versa, and that the 'fact' that sparc5 ram is special, is just a
> myth.  (and a profitable one at that)
> 
> Has anyone any experience of using PC 32Mb parity dimms in a sparc5?  What about the sparc4?  I
> was lead to believe it was a 'cut-down' cheap sparc5, but that somehow there *IS* something odd
> about it's memory requirements.
> 
> I'm confused by all this - I don't want to spend hundreds of pounds on ram for a couple of slow
> suns, which I was given for free, but equally I want to play with solaris 7/8...
> 
> Dave.
> 
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