Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:50:41 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely9.cicely.de> To: Fenrir <fenrir@where.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory question regarding PWS 500a/500au Message-ID: <20020103015041.GF53199@cicely9.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <019b01c193f1$4caad4f0$877ba8c0@ICSLAP38> References: <019b01c193f1$4caad4f0$877ba8c0@ICSLAP38>
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:55:10PM -0700, Fenrir wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I know this is off-topic, however I'm not sure where else to ask.. I have found that there are several people on this list running DEC Alpha Personal Workstation (PWS) 433/500/etc. machines, AKA Miata. I currently have one of these machines with 256Mb of System memory, and am looking to upgrade it. > > Does anyone have any experience using non-DEC memory for these machines? I've been able to find specs that indicate it takes PC-100 ECC SDRAM, but I am not sure if it is buffered, etc.. Has anyone tried 3rd party memory in one of these machines, and does it work bug-free with BSD? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.4R/hardware-alpha.html says: bus width: 128 bits wide, ECC protected unbuffered 72 bit wide SDRAMs DIMMs, installed in pairs of 2 -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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