4 Meg SIMMs...

[Claude.P.Cantin at nrc.CA]

This message was originally for John Bachanan
(bachanan at ucbvax.berkeley.edu) but I can't reach him directly...

It may also be useful for many or you...

John,

The discussion (a few months ago) pointed to the fact that Hitachi chips
were NO good, but that Toshiba one were.


I spent this morning trying to put "NEC" 4 Meg SIMMs in a 4D/25G.  They
do NOT work either!!!!  (the system does not recognize them if the first
bank is the NEC chips, but recognizes them as 1 Meg if the first bank
is some of the original 1 Meg chips...)

Tomorrow is our last day for this fiscal year (the canadian's government's
fiscal year is from Apr 1 -> March 31, and this week-end is a 4-day long
week-end), and the vendor is coming tomorrow with another make of chips
(he pronounced them something like "OKay").  We will be trying them
at that time...

Let me know what else you find out.

Thanks,

   Claude Cantin
   National Research Council of Canada