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---   David A Woyciesjes
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> From: 	David Woyciesjes
> Sent: 	Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:29 PM
> To: 	NetBSD Port-SPARC Mailing List; 'Brad Knowles'
> Subject: 	RE: Old memory?
> 
> Brad ---
> 	Please do everyone a favor and remove the "Follow Up" flag from your
> messages. It is more than a little misleading and irritating.
> 
> ---   David A Woyciesjes
> ---   C & IS Support Specialist
> ---   Yale University Press
> ---   mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
> ---   (203) 432-0953
> ---   ICQ # - 905818
> Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec  7 21:39:35 PST 2001
> Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash
> 
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> From: 	Brad Knowles
> Sent: 	Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:17 PM
> To: 	NetBSD Port-SPARC Mailing List
> Subject: 	Old memory?
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> To: Linuxbierwanderung Mailing List <lbw@eartha.cyberware.co.uk>
> From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
> Subject: Old memory?
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> Folks,
> 
> 	I'm in the process of trying to upgrade the memory on the 
> Twinhead Twinstation 5G (Sun SPARCstation 5 clone) that I bought a 
> few months ago (and onto which I have recently installed NetBSD 
> 1.5.2), and I was wondering if anyone on the list could help me out 
> with figuring out the type of memory it requires.  I've done some 
> searching online, and I've looked at the memory modules that are 
> currently installed.
> 
> 	I know that it uses 72-pin SIMMs (maximum of 32MB in size, 
> according to the page at 
> <http://www.sunrise.com.pl/english/frames/wstn_5g.html>), and looking 
> at the SIMMs that are currently installed, I note that they are very 
> tall, with a total of eight surface-mount memory chips and one SOJ 
> mount memory chip (although I'm not sitting in front of the machine 
> at the moment, so I don't have the chip part numbers, nor can I give 
> you a diagram of the layout).
> 
> 
> 	Based on this, and the age of the machine, I figure that the 
> memory in question is probably fast page mode (FPM) with parity 
> (hence the 9th chip), and by looking at the part numbers on the chip 
> (ending with a -6), I figure that it is 60ns.  Searching on the 'net, 
> I find relatively few places with this kind of memory, and none of 
> them seem to be in Europe or ship to Europe.
> 
> 	Does anyone have any thoughts as to good places where I could buy 
> this kind of stuff?  We have local used parts sales places (on the 
> shady side of town), and I bought some 32MB 72-pin SIMMs at one of 
> the shops there that I thought would be good.  However, at best 
> guess, I think these things are EDO (which I'm not sure hurts or 
> helps), but they certainly don't have parity, and they don't seem to 
> work in the machine.
> 
> 	Also, does anyone have any thoughts on what kinds of SCSI-2 disks 
> I could buy that would be relatively large in capacity, relatively 
> high speed, and relatively reliable?  It's been so long since I did 
> anything with systems this old that I don't remember what kinds of 
> drives from this era were reliable, and what kinds of speeds and 
> capacities would be available.
> 
> 	AdvThanksance!
> 
> -- 
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
> 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>      -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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