SUMMARY: Kingston RAM: 4 x 256MB chips (will it work)?

From: Conner McCleod (nimrha@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 17:15:42 CDT


SUMMARY: Kingston RAM: 4 x 256MB chips (will it work)?

Thanks to all who replied:

Mark Kabella
Roy Butler
Michael DeSimone
Marcelino Mata
Hans Schaechl
David Evans
Robert Johannes
Bill Fay

It seems that we have many people that state that the supported
configuration is 512MB RAM on the U5. Kingston has a KTS7030/256 Kit (2 x
128MB chips). One person believes that it might work. I am calling SUN and
Kingston. If It can not support 1GB I might have to rebuild the entire
thing. One of my coworkers deployed the Solaris 2.8 testing infrastructure
into a U5. Now the clients that have paid lost of bucks for E420 serves are
holding that poor U5 up-to E-Standards. I don't have time to rebuild, they
want 23 products including the Oracle components build in 48hrs.

I am calling SUN and Kingston again to make sure that they can certify that
1GB will work on an U5.

Yours,

Conner McCleod

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Conner-

Yes kingston chips work with ultra sparcs.. I'm not sure about
the part
number(s),
but we've loaded all our Ultra10's with kingston memory with no
problems...
About 12 machines so far...

happy hunting....

-Mark

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Hi,

I believe the Ultra 5 only supports 512MB. I found the
information at the
sunstore website a while back. I don't know about the Kingston
manufacturing issue (if there is one).

Roy

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The U5 will only support 512 MB total. I don't think you can
even use 2 256s
only 4 128s.

Michael DeSimone
Computers & Stuff

I would love to know if this will work since Ultra 5's are
documented to
only support up to 256 Mb total.

Marcelino

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Sun says that the U-10 supports 1 GB (4* 256 MB DIMM), U-5 only
supports up to 512 MB (4* 128 MB DIMM). Since both use the same
type of DIMMs maybe the bigger ones will work in an U-5, too.
But I never tried that - besides the fact that it's not
supported.

Hans
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Good news and bad news. I depends on which chips you have. I
have found their web site reliable but sometimes their RAM is not of high
quality leading to strange data errors but that hasn't happened
recently. And yes I have used Kingston memory in U5s and U10s, back in
Australia. Last year now ... :-)

Checking the Kingston web site it looks like it should work. I'd
Give you 99.0% of it being correct.

Have fun,

David

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