From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 7 7:35:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from poptart.bithose.com (poptart.bithose.com [208.171.236.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D5037B40D for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 07:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from poptart.bithose.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by poptart.bithose.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g47EZYjR077382; Tue, 7 May 2002 10:35:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (jakari@localhost) by poptart.bithose.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g47EZYrr077375; Tue, 7 May 2002 10:35:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: poptart.bithose.com: jakari owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:35:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Jameel Akari To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Gorm Jorgensen , Subject: Re: Adding memory to an 500au (PC66/100 ECC ?) In-Reply-To: <20020507114353.A808@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 7 May 2002, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:31:45AM +0200, Gorm Jorgensen wrote: > > > > As far as I can see it uses standard SDRAM ECC memory, but is it PC66 or > > > > PC100 ? > > > The original DEC DIMMs are labeled 83MHz so PC100 should do it. Unbuffered, > > > ECC SDRAM please. I only ever had DEC memory in mine, but reports say it > > > should work with PC100. > > Be careful: they install in pairs Kinda odd.. Crucial Tech lists this for the PW 500au: http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=Digital%2BPersonal+Workstation&model=Personal+Workstation+500au&submit=Go which is SDRAM,66MHz,CL=2,ECC. This is what I ordered for my 500au and it works fine. Note that they do list the quantity as 2. And they's not exactly cheap (less than what I paid, but still close to twice that of normal PC RAM.) I'm pretty sure that the memory controller on the Miatas actually clocks at 66MHz and that the DEC parts were overrated. (gotta love that belt+suspenders engineering approach) I've had a grand total of one correctable ECC machine check in the past two years, and that's when it got up to 92degF in the computer room. :-/ #!/jameel/akari for zig in $(find / -name zig); do rm -f "$zig"; done; export GREAT_JUSTICE=1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message