On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:25:08PM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:20:24AM -0500, josh wrote: > > If I read the FAQ right, the 550 has only two memory slots while the > > XTR has four (all filled in my case). The 550 has space for two disks > > and the XTR has four (all filled in my case). I'm running romrev > > 2.9.34. How does the rom get the information on memory and disks? It > > The ROM can detect which board you are running, and can probe for memory and > disks based on that. > > > is not setable in my version and the rom reports only 1/4 the memory > > that is really there. (based on the results of memtest which reads the > > on an XTR? Are you sure the memory is Registered ECC memory? XTR is *very* > picky about memory.
Yes, I am very sure. Can I be sure that it is good registered ECC memory. There the answer is, no I can't, because the version of memtest86 that is downloadable from Sun, does not actually verify ECC and also gets the amount of memory from the ROM. If I could run the latest version or even figure out how to compile and run the current tester so that I could override its reading the amount of memory from ROM then I would. I did try to override the settings without luck, it still checks the ROM. ROM values override the command line. Tonight, I am rolling back to using a RaQ3i/550 for production tonight - so starting next week I can just test the hell of my RaQXTR/550. My first task will be verifying that the ROM is the ROM I think it is. My memory is that after I had problems with the first OSRCD I used. I spoke with Gerald, who did say somethings like, "I've never seen that before" and "that's not supposed to happen"; Perhaps, I should have regarded that alone as an indication I might have problems. And of course I can pull out the two sticks I added (or even three) and let the memtest run on each 512 stick by itself. The original memory and the two sticks I have do differ in size and one digit on their number -- I assume this was simply because memory keeps be engineered slightly differently. > > > info from the ROM using the standard linux methods). The cmos commands > > seem limited -- are there multiple versions of the cmos program for > > the different romrevs? > > yes and no. The cmos/nvram tools get revised wioth rom revisions, but are > backwards compatible. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
