RAM for digital server 5300
Jay Estabrook
jay.estabrook at hp.com
Wed Apr 25 20:14:53 UTC 2007
Simon Tierney wrote:
> I have one of these machines which has cards to take PC100 ECC SDRAM
> modules, 1 card for each CPU.
>
> The Service and User manuals require replacement RAM modules of 128 Mb and
> 256 Mb (in pairs), but larger modules (512Mb) have become available since
> these manuals were written.
>
> Has anyone any experience adding these larger modules? Will the system be
> able to address them, or should I stick to 256 modules?
I've no experience trying those 512MB DIMMs, but the docs do say that
the memory limit is 4GB done by 8 pairs of 256MB DIMMs, so I really
would NOT recommend trying anything larger. From the docs:
"The rules for addressing memory are as follows:
* A memory pair consists of 2 DIMMs of the same size.
* Memory pairs in riser cards may be of different sizes.
* The memory pair in slot 0 must be the largest of all memory
pairs. Other memory pairs may be as large but none may be
larger.
* The physical starting address of each memory pair is N times 512MB
(2000000) where N is the slot number on the riser card.
* Memory addresses are contiguous within each module pair.
* If memory pairs do not completely fill the 512MB space provided,
memory “holes” occur in the physical address space.
* Software creates contiguous virtual memory even though physical
memory may not be contiguous."
So, it's really a hardware limitation in the way that memory DIMM pairs
are mapped into the physical address space, that tops out at 4MB on the
5300.
Sorry.
--Jay++
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