[rescue] memory trade, anyone? (and misc. x86 rambling)

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Hey, is there any chance I can talk you out of the board?  I had one for a
while, love it, for all it's quirks.  I ended up not keeping it.  Email
for possible trades.  It's not licensed from intel, and all sorts of other
quirks.
	Nick

On 13 Nov 2001, Dan Sikorski wrote:

> I have two micron PC133 ECC DIMM's that were purchased from crucial that
> i would like to trade.  I can't get them to work in any of my machines,
> but they work fine in my friend's KT7 athlon system (they seem to NEED a
> 133mhz bus, and my machines are all 100 and 66mhz) The labels on the
> DIMMS say:
> 
> MT9LSDT1672G-133B1 PC133R-333-542-A1
> US	BZAB61W010	200120
> 128MB, SYNCH, 133MHz, CL3, ECC
> 
> In exchange, I'm looking for memory that i can use in one of my
> machines, ideally, a 256MB PC133 DIMM (non-ECC, probably) or two 128's
> 
> On a realated note, can someone tell me why this memory doesn't work? 
> My guess is that ECC modules MUST be run at the speed that they are
> intended to run at, unlike their non-ECC bretheren.  Does that make
> sense?  I tried this memory in my athlon (FIC SD-11) and my dual p2
> (funky possibly-prototype micron dual p2 boad with a samurai chipset).
> 
> <OT babble>
> Actually, that board is a story by itself, perhaps someone can shed some
> light on it for me.  I got it on an ebay auction (cheaply, which was a
> sign from the beginning) It's a dual p2/p3 board from micron with a
> samurai chipset.  The only info i've ever found about such a board all
> led to a board that has integrated SCSI and a few other things, which my
> board doesn't have.  In linux (the only thing i've ever used the machine
> for) the kernel detects the onboard IDE controller, and then proceeds to
> detect a few more ide controllers, and locks up, but the board only has
> plugs for one IDE controller.  The only way i've gotten around it is by
> passing the kernel the options ide2=0 ide3=0, etc. so that it runs out
> of ide interfaces supported by the kernel when it gets to those phantom
> interfaces.  (trick i thought of from back when the kernel didn't have
> real support for the Promise Ultra33 controller that i have) Anyway, i
> figure that the board is some prototype or something, and that's why
> it's a little funky.  Anyone ever seen a micron/samurai board before?
> </OT babble>
> 
> hmm... that's enough rambling for now.
> 
> 	-Dan Sikorski
> 
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