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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Vax 8650 memory upgrade?
Keywords: Problems with installation
Message-ID: <9621@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 21:27:29 GMT
References: <1100@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1100@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> lucchina@hsi.UUCP (Paul Lucchina) writes:
> The company I work for just purchased a 16 Mb array of memory.  The
> board is manufactured by Standard Memories (P/N Pincomm 860SX). 
> 
> The memory backplane is configured as follows:
...
> When the system was configured with just the DEC 4 MB board and the EMC
> 16 MB board no diagnostics were reported.  When the Standard Memories array
> was added the following messages printed on the console after CPU
> initialization.
> 
> 	Warning: this system has a memory configuration that
> 	is unsupported and untested by Digital Equipment Corp.

Our 8600 has 16 MB of DEC 4 MB memory and 32MB of EMC 16MB memory (if I recall)
and prints out the same error message everytime you boot.  It doesn't seem to
have any practical import.  I don't know whether DEC was just trying to match
specific configurations or perhaps error reporting or some other minor detail
might be getting confused.  In any case, it's been running (VMS) this way for
several years now without difficulty.

-- 
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