Top Document: SGI hardware Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -12- MEMORY Next Document: -14- Can I mix 1MB and 2MB SIMMS in my 4D/20 & 4D/25 Personal IRISes? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Walter Roberson <roberson@Ibd.nrc.ca> provided the following table. '3rd' indicates the memory is available from 3rd party vendors. IRIS 3000 series (MC68020 based): ??; scrap these if you aren't a collector 4D/20, 4D/25: Industry Standard 30 pin; 80-100 ns; 3rd; see notes 1-3 4D/30, 4D/35, R3000 Indigo: SGI Custom 64 pin w/ASIC, parity; 3rd common; see note 4 4D/50, 4D/60 (cs12), 4D/70, 4D/80, 4D/85: SGI Custom??; 3rd uncommon; see notes 5-6 4D/110: SGI Custom??; no known source 4D/1[2-8]0, 4D/[234][1-8]0, Crimson: SGI Custom, ECC; 3rd; see notes 7-8 Challenge/Onyx: SGI Custom, ECC; 3rd Power Challenge/Onyx: SGI Custom, same as Challenge/Onyx; 3rd R4000 Indigo, Indy, Indigo^2: Industry Standard 72 pin pop-up page-mode parity; 3rd very common Power Indigo^2: as for Indigo^2 but has distinct 128Mb upgrade R10000 XXX: as for base XXX system for now, will require higher-speed memory subsystems to get full performance. Notes: 1. 4D/2[05] can mix 1M and 2M SIMMs, but not 1M or 2M with 4M. 2. 4D/2[05] PROM requires first 4MB SIMMs in each bank to power-up without a parity error. Hitachi are bad; Toshiba, among others, are good. Does not apply to very early 4D/20. 3. All slots must be populated when using double-high 1 MB SIMMs. 4. An ASIC bug prevents using multiple banks of 4 Mb SIMMs. 5. 4D/70 max is 16 Mb main memory plus 128 Mb expansion boards. Some 4D/70s support 4 MB SIMMs for 64 Mb local main memory. 6. 4D/80 max is 16 Mb main memory plus 128 Mb expansion boards. 4D/80 could support 48 Mb local main memory if two PALs were changed. 7. MC2, MC3 cannot mix standard and high density SIMMs. 8. Crimson memory should be sorted highest capacity first to lowest last. In each case, memory MUST be added in groups of 4 SIMMs. Substantial slowdowns might occur with the Challenge/Onyx and Power Challenge/Onyx if SIMMs are not added in groups of 8 or as required to fill all 'leaves'. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI hardware Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -12- MEMORY Next Document: -14- Can I mix 1MB and 2MB SIMMS in my 4D/20 & 4D/25 Personal IRISes? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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