dkelly@gatech.edu (Dwight Kelly) (01/09/90)
I am buying two Sparcstation 1s next week on Sun's Developer program. The SS1 comes with 8meg of RAM and no disk. Now I want to upgrade them to 16meg RAM and ~630meg of disk. Can I install standard SIMM modules and a Imprimis Wren V hard drive? What speed SIMMs does the SS1 use? Does it come with a format program that can handle the Imprimis? Thanks, Dwight Kelly Network Publications, Inc. Atlanta, GA
cdr@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Carl Rigney) (01/28/90)
In answer to dkelly's questions:
I'm running a Wren V on my SparcStation 1 now. I haven't gotten it to
boot from it yet, but it will mount /, /usr and swap from it after I've
booted from the ethernet. Warning - you need a funny cable because the
4/60s and 3/80s have half-width SCSI connectors. The part # for the cable
from Sun is X931H and they're $20. Shoebox Wren V's are going for around
$2500 these days. I switched the target # in the config file to 0 because
that was easier than changing the disk's SCSI target. :-)
I've been told that you can use standard 100ns SIMMs in the Sparcstation
for around $150/MB, I haven't tried it yet but plan to. Talk to
Clearpoint or some other reputable memory vendor.
Some places are advertising 4Mb SIMMS for Sparcstations but they're still
pretty expensive. Still, if you need more than 16MB and can't wait for
Sun to offer them, its worth looking into.
Carl Rigney
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408-749-2453wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht) (02/04/90)
In article <4476@brazos.Rice.edu> amdcad!cdr@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Carl Rigney) writes: >I've been told that you can use standard 100ns SIMMs in the Sparcstation >for around $150/MB, I haven't tried it yet but plan to. Talk to >Clearpoint or some other reputable memory vendor. While the problem may just be time delay, I suspect that clearpoint is just outrageously expensive. Current prices for 80ns Simms are well under 100 bucks. (Under 80bucks if you buy more than 64 megabytes.) -wolfgang Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) TEL: (703) 768-2640 UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang