Michael Laajanen <michael_laajanen@yahoo.com> writes:
>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?

No, I'm not sure, I was only going by a memory sale site that I've
used some over the years.