Subject: Re: SS 1+: 4M SIMMs OK?
To: Magnus Holmberg <mho@era-a.ericsson.se>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/10/1998 06:17:37
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Magnus Holmberg wrote:
>An SS-1/1+/2 has 4 banks that can be filled with either 1-meg or
>4-meg SIMMs. If you mix, the larger SIMMs must go in the first banks,
>ie, if you have 4x4meg and 12x1meg, the 4meg SIMMs go into bank 0.
>
>The banks are numbered like this:
>
> SCSI SCSI
>
> 0 1
> 2 3
> SBUS
This is correct for the 1 & 1+, but not for the 2. The Sparc2's SIMMs go in a
staggered order:
SCSI SCSI
3 3
2 2
1 1
0 0
3 3
2 2
1 1
0 0
SBUS
-Dave McGuire