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From: noah@Apple.COM (Noah Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: IIci Parity System
Keywords: Parity IIci
Message-ID: <36497@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 07:40:41 GMT
References: <2847@skivs.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2847@skivs.UUCP> jmm@ski.UUCP (Joel M. Miller) writes:
>Is there a special IIci box needed, or can parity SIMMs usefully be put in
>to any IIci box?  (I know that *all* SIMMs must be parity SIMMs if parity
>is to be enabled).

You must specifically order a parity system.  You not only need parity
memory, but also the parity generating/checking hardware.  Parity (9-bit)
SIMMs will work on the regular IIci, but parity will not be generated or
checked.

noah

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