Hi,

Doug McIntyre wrote:
> cgebert@myfastmail.com writes:
>> I am upgrading a Sun Blade 150. It currently has 1GB of RAM and a
>> 40GB harddrive. It is running Solaris 8. I was going to put four
>> 512MB sticks of ECC PC133 memory and a 500GB UATA/100 harddrive in
>> it. Are there any compatibility issues with these upgrades?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> The Blade 150 is pre Ultra-ATA standard, thus its onboard ATA
> controller can only address 128GB of drive. It could end up seeing
> 128GB of the drive, or maybe less, depending on lots of things on how
> the drive interacts with the ancient ATA controller. This is much like
> any Sun (or PC) hardware of the era.
>
> The memory should be fine, the Blade 150 can address 4GB of DRAM, and
> as you spec, it is PC133 ECC DIMMs. Not sure why I'd bother on such a
> slow small system myself.
>
>
Are you sure that the Blade can take 4GB, not only 2GB?

/michael