[rescue] Ultra 10 Ram?

[Andrew Weiss]

Quoting Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>:

> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:26:10 -0400
> Brooke Gravitt <gravitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Where is the best place to get the cheapest (pennywise) RAM that
> will
> > work in an Ultra 10? I remember paying Sun and ungodly amount for
> the
> > stuff back in late  '99 for some of our test boxes. You can use
> some
> > type of PC ECC ram, right?
> Depends on what RAM your PeeCee needs. ;-)
>
> The U5/10 needs 3.3 V buffered / registered EDO (not SDRAM!) ECC
> DIMMs.
> I have some Motorola PowerStack II PReP machines that use this kind
> of
> RAM too. This RAM was also common on PowerMacs of the PPC603 /
> PPC604
> vintage.
> --
>

I believe 5 V DIMMS were common on Powermacs of the PPC603/604
vintage.  I have never ever seen a Powermac use 3.3 V EDO.  Powermacs
went from 5V DIMMS to SDRAM PC100/66.

EDO was common on SMP Pentium/PPro machines.

Andrew