re: Memory/data errors

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Martin Husemann writes:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 07:24:05PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> > While fixing the Ultra 5 motherboard, I also compared the motherboard with
> > one from an Ultra 10. They're identical. Sun lists the memory capacity for
> > the Ultra 10 as 1 gigabyte and for the Ultra 5 as 512 megabytes, but I think
> > this is just because the Ultra 5 can't take physically tall DIMMs unless the
> > floppy drive is left out.
> 
> Yes, it is just a case space issue. I removed the floppy in my U5 and added
> more memory.

FWIW, the other main "hardware" difference is the PCI daughter
board that gives the ultra10 more PCI slots.

from software it's basically impossible to tell the difference.


.mrg.