Alpha hardware

[Hoover, Tony]

I know that my EB64+ required SIMMs to be installed in groups of 4.  It
had 8 slots.



On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 13:36 -0500, Smith, Todd wrote:
> Hello Jay,
> 
> I only tried one module since that is all that I had, but I thought my
> UDB will boot to SRM with only a single 8MB module.  I just dragged it
> out and tested just a single SIMM and it never booted.  Maybe another
> 128MB SIMM module would do the trick!
> 
> Thanks for remembering some fundamental facts.  :)
> 
> Todd
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Jay Estabrook
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 13:10
> To: Linux on Alpha processors
> Subject: Re: Alpha hardware
> 
> Hi, Todd,
> 
> Did you try just 1, or a pair?
> 
> I thought that all the Alphas (other than some API machines that use
> and AMD chipset) required SIMMS/DIMMS in pairs... ???
> 
> I know that I've loaded UDB with 64M SIMMS with success, but never had
> anything larger to attempt. If those SIMMS were really "late", it's
> possible
> that the SROM code isn't up to configuring them. I don't know if any of
> the SIMM-based Alphas were ever tested with 128MB SIMMS...
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> --Jay++
> 
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