Adaptec 62022 sf(4) on a Miata 433a

[Wilko Bulte]

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.

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