Subject: Re: EDO-RAM in RiscPC's
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen <thomassk@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/26/1996 15:19:02
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 20:50:29 +1000 (EST)
> From: Marcus Deubel <marcus@reef.cs.jcu.edu.au>
> 
> Does anybody have experience with EDO-RAM and RiscBSD? The 32 MBytes 
> EDO-RAM PS/2 Simms are much cheaper than the normal 32 MBytes PS/2 simms 
> without parity. So is it possible to run 
> 1. a Risc PC with EDO-RAM?
> 2. if yes, will RiscBSD also run proper?

Kim Øyhus has, and as far as I know, he does not have any
problems with 1. or 2.

His RiscBSD problems are SCSI-related.

But, in order to be able to use EDO SIMMs, you have to have
a new motherboard (i.e. RISC OS 3 v. 3.6).

EDO RAM does not work in 3.5-based Risc PC's.

I have tried the same type of SIMM that Kim is running
in his Risc PC 700.

Kjetil B.