Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:34:11 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 62022 sf(4) on a Miata 433a Message-ID: <20030723163411.GA61874@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030723182711.U46301-100000@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <20030723162004.GA61698@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030723182711.U46301-100000@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 06:30:26PM +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > The box has currently 512MB of RAM, but will be stocked up to 1GB soon, > > > > > which according to docs is the limit with FreeBSD due to dma limitation. > > > > > > > > My impression was that Miatas are also limited to 1G by hardware? > > > > Does anyone know if Miatas can be fit with >1G? > > > > 1.5G is the limit on Miata. > > > > > In my Miata there are 6 slots for ECC SDRAM, currently two of them are > > > equipped with 256MB ECC registered Sticks from HP. > > > > Registered? No, ECC yes, but otherwise plain 83MHz unbuffered SDRAM. > > > Well, I got the box naked, without RAM and SCSI stuff. > > I managed to get some HP RAM, which im my company also was used for some > Compaq Proliant Servers, and it worked fine. > In this machine I got the version with the small buffer chips. Ah, OK.. > Otherwise the requirement is ECC unbuffered, yes. > But the registered ones were cheaper to get ;-) Sounds familiar ;) I just wanted to make the point that the official story is ECC unbuffered SDRAM. Miata RAM worked fine in my PC :) It is the ECC requirement that is the stumbling block as most PC DIMMs do not have that. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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