From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jun 22 15:26:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA13569 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zen.nash.org (nash.pr.mcs.net [204.95.47.72]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA13517 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from alex@localhost) by zen.nash.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA07389; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 17:24:17 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 17:24:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199606222224.RAA07389@zen.nash.org> From: Alex Nash To: dunn@harborcom.net Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, hal@wwa.com Subject: Re: Mixing SIMMs of different speeds Reply-to: nash@mcs.com Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What I have always been told is that put the slowest chips first. > Most motherboards set the speed at which they access memory by the > speed of the first chip. Therefore if you put the 70 after the 60, it > will try to access the 70 at 60, which is no good. But the other way > around, it will access the 60 at 70, which works fine. Just as I suspected, thanks for verifying this. I'll give this a try just as soon as my verify-the-70ns-work-ok-standalone-by- running-make-world finishes (which should be any minute now as it just entered the install phase). Alex