From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jan 2 17:50:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF8237B41C for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 17:50:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id g031oIO07569; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:50:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely9.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20.cicely.de [10.1.1.22]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g031ogtx046735; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:50:42 +0100 (CET)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely9.cicely.de) Received: from cicely9.cicely.de (cicely9.cicely.de [10.1.7.11]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g031ogW12961; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:50:42 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely9.cicely.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g031ofH62474; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:50:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:50:41 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Fenrir Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory question regarding PWS 500a/500au Message-ID: <20020103015041.GF53199@cicely9.cicely.de> References: <019b01c193f1$4caad4f0$877ba8c0@ICSLAP38> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <019b01c193f1$4caad4f0$877ba8c0@ICSLAP38> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely9.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT alpha Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:55:10PM -0700, Fenrir wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I know this is off-topic, however I'm not sure where else to ask.. I have found that there are several people on this list running DEC Alpha Personal Workstation (PWS) 433/500/etc. machines, AKA Miata. I currently have one of these machines with 256Mb of System memory, and am looking to upgrade it. > > Does anyone have any experience using non-DEC memory for these machines? I've been able to find specs that indicate it takes PC-100 ECC SDRAM, but I am not sure if it is buffered, etc.. Has anyone tried 3rd party memory in one of these machines, and does it work bug-free with BSD? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.4R/hardware-alpha.html says: bus width: 128 bits wide, ECC protected unbuffered 72 bit wide SDRAMs DIMMs, installed in pairs of 2 -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message