Subject: Re: SS 1+: 4M SIMMs OK?
To: Magnus Holmberg <mho@era-a.ericsson.se>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/10/1998 06:17:37
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Magnus Holmberg wrote:
>An SS-1/1+/2 has 4 banks that can be filled with either 1-meg or
>4-meg SIMMs. If you mix, the larger SIMMs must go in the first banks,
>ie, if you have 4x4meg and 12x1meg, the 4meg SIMMs go into bank 0.
>
>The banks are numbered like this: 
>
>   SCSI		SCSI
>
>	0	1
>	2	3
>	  SBUS

  This is correct for the 1 & 1+, but not for the 2.  The Sparc2's SIMMs go in a
staggered order:

  SCSI    SCSI
    3        3
    2        2
    1        1
    0        0
    3        3
    2        2
    1        1
    0        0
      SBUS

                           -Dave McGuire