Re: Help! SLC Memory

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 00:00

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In <34B0B8DF.735A@enterprise.net> John Robertson <robo@enterprise.net> writes:

>I'm confused about what simms will and will not
>work with a SLC. I've read the faq and that suggests
>that it will only take 4meg simms. However I'm shure I 
>read in this or related news group a meesage about using
>16meg simms with this model. Has anyone any experiance of
>this? and if so - can you use the cheaper generic parity
>simms? (I guess that also applies to the 4meg simms also)

Ok, SLC's will definitely *not* work with 16 meg SIMM's. I've tried some
full-parity 16 meg SIMM's and the machine dies a horrible death. Maybe this
could be something that was fixed with later bootROM versions?

Make sure that the SIMM's you use are *full* parity (ie. there must not be
any unfilled device locations on each RAM module like the more regular
single-bit parity SIMM's have), otherwise the RAM tests fail.

Regards,

Craig.
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