Re: Classic SIMMs

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From: Michael Lorenz
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00

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Greetings !

> >> I don't think full-parity SIMM's with work,
> >They definitely work in IPX and SPARCbook 3's.
> 
> IPX's and ELC's had some sort of special code in the bootROM's which
> detected the parity configuration of the RAM and acted accordingly. It seems
> means that all the RAM has to be the same type of parity though.
Hmm, that sounds plausible, but in the IPX I had 2x16MB from Sun and
2x4MB ripped out of a PC which gave wonderfully working 40MB RAM.

bye
Michael

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