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  • Sun Ultra 60 > 2 Gb Memory ?.

    From chris@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 6 18:32:06 2022
    Hi,

    I'm working on a Sun a Netra T1125 for a project, Ultra 60 m/b.
    It's running FreeBSD Sparc 11 rel, packages built, including
    vnc server and more. It has 16 x 128MB, 2GB, but running zfs,
    could really do with some more. Were there any 256Mb simms
    made that will fit this machine and if so, would 4mB total work,
    supported or not. Has anyone tried this ?...

    Thanks,

    Chris

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  • From Abandoned_Trolley@21:1/5 to chris on Fri May 6 21:53:47 2022
    On 06/05/2022 18:32, chris wrote:
    Hi,
    and if so, would 4mB total work,



    I assume you mean 4GB ?


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  • From chris@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 6 23:27:55 2022
    On 05/06/22 21:53, Abandoned_Trolley wrote:
    On 06/05/2022 18:32, chris wrote:
    Hi,
    and if so, would 4mB total work,



    I assume you mean 4GB ?



    Yes, sorry, 4Gb or even more....

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  • From Andreas Fenner@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 8 10:14:04 2022
    Am 06.05.2022 um 19:32 schrieb chris:
    Hi,

    I'm working on a Sun a Netra T1125 for a project, Ultra 60 m/b.
    It's running FreeBSD Sparc 11 rel, packages built, including
    vnc server and more. It has 16 x 128MB, 2GB, but running zfs,
    could really do with some more. Were there any 256Mb simms
    made that will fit this machine and if so, would 4mB total work,
    supported or not. Has anyone tried this ?...

    Thanks,

    Chris


    From "Oracle System Handbook" https://support.oracle.com/handbook_private/Systems/U60/spec.html
    (Oracle Support Login required)

    16 DIMM module slots

    Install SIMMs in sets of four. 16-, 32-, 64-, and 128-MB DIMM expansion

    2 GB total memory capacity



    Andreas

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  • From Abandoned_Trolley@21:1/5 to Andreas Fenner on Sun May 8 14:47:13 2022
    On 08/05/2022 09:14, Andreas Fenner wrote:
    Am 06.05.2022 um 19:32 schrieb chris:
    Hi,

    I'm working on a Sun a Netra T1125 for a project, Ultra 60 m/b.
    It's running FreeBSD Sparc 11 rel, packages built, including
    vnc server and more. It has 16 x 128MB, 2GB, but running zfs,
    could really do with some more. Were there any 256Mb simms
    made that will fit this machine and if so, would 4mB total work,
    supported or not. Has anyone tried this ?...

    Thanks,

    Chris


    From "Oracle System Handbook" https://support.oracle.com/handbook_private/Systems/U60/spec.html
    (Oracle Support Login required)

        16 DIMM module slots

        Install SIMMs in sets of four. 16-, 32-, 64-, and 128-MB DIMM expansion

        2 GB total memory capacity



    Andreas



    I think the OP is trying to find an undocumented fix - as his machine is already maxxed out at 2GB

    Personally, I suspect that the chipset / hardware is going to be the
    limiting factor, and that the idea is a non-starter - but the first
    question to answer is ... are there any 256MB DIMMs around which will physically fit in the slots ?



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  • From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to fred@fred-smith.co.uk on Mon May 9 11:20:56 2022
    XPost: comp.sys.sun.hardware

    [follow-up's to comp.sys.sun.hardware]
    In article <t58hl1$cod$1@dont-email.me>,
    Abandoned_Trolley <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:
    question to answer is ... are there any 256MB DIMMs around which will >physically fit in the slots ?

    I believe the 256MB DIMMs for the Ultra 80 are the same form factor.

    John
    groenveld@acm.org

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  • From chris@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 9 14:05:07 2022
    Abandoned_Trolley<fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:

    question to answer is ... are there any 256MB DIMMs around which will
    physically fit in the slots ?

    I believe the 256MB DIMMs for the Ultra 80 are the same form factor.

    John
    groenveld@acm.org

    Thanks for the replies. Done a bit more digging and it seems that the
    256meg will work in a U60, but are seen as 128 meg, which makes sense.

    Posted in the sun rescue digest mailing list, which says the same, but wondering what the differences are between the U60 and U80, where the
    256 meg are supported. The machine here is a T1405, a telco equivalent
    of the U60, while the U80 telco is a T1405. I'm pretty sure I have a
    T1405 somewhere in store, so will pull that out and check it out.

    Meanwhile, have the T1405 setup with a sas controller, HP msa50 sas enclosure. 5 x 900Gb drives setup as a zfs array and rsync'd
    around 2.4Tb from the lab server to the T1405. Still checking, but
    seems to be error free, so yet another example of how FreeBSD Sparc
    just rocks...

    Chris


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