Hi,
Is anyone using <b>512 MB</b> SODIMMs? I assume any low profile <b>PC133 3.3V non-ECC 144-pin</b> unit will work. What make is known to work?
Also, is the virtual drive limit of <b>40GB</b> for SunPCi 2.3 fixed or can this be expanded. I want to use an old 80 GB HDD. Can I have a virtual drive of 80 GB, or is the best I can do is to have <b>2</b> virtual drives of <b>40 GB</b> each?
Thanks
Good evening graeme,
I have been planning on posting some lessons learned since 13 January 2005, but I have been extremely busy with other tasks. Seeing your second question was a poke in the ribs that I need to share some lessons learned with my experiences.
I am a happy owner of a Sun Blade 150 with a SunPCI IIpro card. The latest version of the software for this card provides the ability to grow the disk image.
I learned that one must have another program to get the Windows environment to use the larger image. I found some programs that will do this, but they are too big to be placed on a floppy disk.
I did do some playing around. I found that I could boot into DOS and that I could boot into something called GRUB, a form of Linux. Now if I could figure out how to get Linux boot disk to turn on the access to the CDROM, then I could use Partition Magic on that Linux CDROM.
No matter what setting changes are made, the SunPCI card wants to boot off of the floppy disk. I never could figure out how to get the SunPCI to boot off of the CD-ROM drive. So this tells me that there is another spot that controls the boot order.
Instead of fighting this problem, I decided to start fresh. I caused the new diskimage to be created on the second hard drive. I found that the largest size is 40 GB for the diskimage. The same thing that you discovered. I have not found anything in the various conversations nor in the documentation that mentions how to get above this.
However, there is as work-around to this limitation. You can go into the mapping a disk option to access the extra space. For example, I have create a map to a drive that I have named "H" and it is using the space that is outside of the diskimage on that same hard drive.
The benefit of the foregoing approach is that both the Sun Solaris side and the Windows whatever can access the same files and folders. (My Sun Blade 150 factory installed hard drive is much smaller than the added second hard drive. So storing any Solaris generated files here is a big help too.)
So I am loading Windows based programs in the diskimage and I store when I can the various documents and data files on this mapped drive.
I hope the foregoing helps. It is rare that I can provide an answer instead of seeking an answer.
Thank you for writing,
FRED L. STRICKLAND
Graeme,
I don't anticipate any problem with PC133 sodimms. Should the board actually only need PC100 functionality, they'll function that way, as well.
Keep in mind that older MS environments do not map beyond 512mb very well.I've had Win98 produce BSOD's the instant I gave it more than 512mb total RAM, then run happily when there was `only` 512mb.
Bill,
Some of the newer memory is not really backwards compatible anymore. The PC133 memory doesn’t like to run at anything other than 133. To the OP, check before you buy. If in doubt, don’t buy it. Going to companies like Crucial and Kingston are your best bet. They guarantee compatibility, if they say it’s works, it will.
Hello,
fortunately the SunPCi II/IIpro is able to use PC133 memory. My board is using two 256MB modules (Kingston ValueRAM and noname). A friends Toshiba Notebook didn't take the 256MB PC133 modules (they were properly deteced, but the systems crashed constantly), but the Sun 64MB module from the SunPCi II.
I doubt that it takes 512MB modules. This is my feeling and the Crucial site lists <b>only</b> 128MB and 256MB modules for the Sun PCi II !
Be careful the metall clip of the SO-DIMM socket <b>may</b> touch the contacts of the surface mounted memory chip on the left side. I used a small piece of isolating tape ...
Michael
Can can tell you guys I have a IIpro card that has a Sun factory 128MB module and I added a Centron Laptop PC133 clocks down to 100MHz MemoryPower 512MB module and I've seen the total RAM installed listed as 655,360 less 8,192 (8MB) for Shared Video so I have 647,168K available for any x86 OS.But I now have a magor problem myself.I can run ./sunpci -vga and I keep getting a "Add/Create C or D: error box" I can't attach a "C:" or a "D:" I've created previously, but right after the files are created, the Sunpci program states you can't have an exclusive D: only diskimage, even if I tell it to use the "C:" as C:... It's getting very frustrating. I have this IIpro card installed in a Ultra60 with Solaris 10 3/05 with Recommended Patch Cluster installed, 2GB RAM, 2 18GB SCSI HD.I've read previous post about the driver not attech error, and doing the ln-s for .2100 and .2100.64 files works like a champ after running ./sunpcload.I'm getting so mad about this, I've completely uninstalled SUNWspci2 (2.3.2) PKG and re-installed it. While in the process of starting "Fresh", I even deleted all previous diskimages, and what happens? I get this stupid "You can't have an exclusive D:" What the &^%$ is this? Any help would great...
Allen
