On Mar 10, 6:52 pm, Michael Laajanen <michael_laaja...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Doug McIntyre wrote:
> > cgeb...@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

It says the slots will only accept 512MB sticks.