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I'm trying to upgrade a Blade 1000 from 512 Mb to 1024 Mb.

After inserting the DIMMs in the appropriate banks the system is not
booting. The only thing displayed through the serial port is:

Probing system devices
Error: /packages/dropins: Last Trap Corrected ECC Error
Error -256
Dictionary overflow - here f00a4894 limit f00b0000

and the system sits there idle with the fans at full speed... no scree
output, no keyboard LEDs, and the power button is alight and not
blinking.

I searched SunSolve but to no avail.

Here is some additional information --- in the hope that it gives a
helpful soul some ideas --- :

- I have the following DIMMs in bank0: 4 x 128 Mb
SN: 501448978033641

- the memconf/prtdiag output is:

memconf -v
memconf: V1.64 16-Jan-2006 http://www.4schmidts.com/unix.html
hostname: hostname
banner: Sun-Blade-1000 (UltraSPARC-III 750MHz)
model: Sun-Blade-1000
Sun development name: Excalibur
Solaris 10 1/06 s10s_u1wos_19a SPARC, 64-bit kernel, SunOS 5.10
1 UltraSPARC-III 750MHz cpu, system freq: 150MHz
CPU Units:
==================================== CPUs ===================
E$ CPU CPU
CPU Freq Size Implementation Mask Status
--- -------- ---------- --------------------- --- ------
0 750 MHz 8MB SUNW,UltraSPARC-III 5.4 on-line
Memory Units:
Memory Segment Table:
--------------------------------------------------------------
Base Address Size Interleave Factor Contains
--------------------------------------------------------------
0x0 512MB 2 BankIDs 0,2
Bank Table:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Physical Location
ID ControllerID GroupID Size DIMMs Interleave Way
-----------------------------------------------------------------
0 0 0 256MB 2x128MB 0
2 0 0 256MB 2x128MB 1
Memory Module Groups:
-------------------------------------------------------------
ControllerID GroupID Labels Status DIMMs
-------------------------------------------------------------
0 0 chassis/system-board/J0100 128MB
0 0 chassis/system-board/J0202 128MB
0 0 chassis/system-board/J0304 128MB
0 0 chassis/system-board/J0406 128MB
empty sockets: J0101 J0203 J0305 J0407
total memory = 512MB

- I'm trying to add, in bank1, the following: 4 x 128 Mb
SN: 501448944K00BHW

- I'm respecting the Service Manual instructions relative to the
memory upgrade.

Thank you in advance

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Peter FELECAN wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade a Blade 1000 from 512 Mb to 1024 Mb.
>
> After inserting the DIMMs in the appropriate banks the system is not
> booting. The only thing displayed through the serial port is:
>
> Probing system devices
> Error: /packages/dropins: Last Trap Corrected ECC Error
> Error -256
> Dictionary overflow - here f00a4894 limit f00b0000
>
> and the system sits there idle with the fans at full speed... no scree
> output, no keyboard LEDs, and the power button is alight and not
> blinking.
>
> I searched SunSolve but to no avail.
>
> Here is some additional information --- in the hope that it gives a
> helpful soul some ideas --- :
>
> - I have the following DIMMs in bank0: 4 x 128 Mb
> SN: 501448978033641
>
>
> - I'm trying to add, in bank1, the following: 4 x 128 Mb
> SN: 501448944K00BHW
>
> - I'm respecting the Service Manual instructions relative to the
> memory upgrade.
>

You may try to put the existing ones to Bank 1 or leave them out and the
new ones to Bank 0.

Some time ago I bought two 512MB modules for my SunBlade 150 to upgrade
from 1,5 GB to 2,0 GB. I replaced the old 256MB module in Bank0 with the
new ones. The system paniced. After swapping the modules the system runs
very stable again. It seems that the system got some timing information
or something like that from the first bank and the old modules in bank1
where not capable to work with this settings.

Frank Langelage <frank@lafr.de> writes:

> Peter FELECAN wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade a Blade 1000 from 512 Mb to 1024 Mb.
>>
>> After inserting the DIMMs in the appropriate banks the system is not
>> booting. The only thing displayed through the serial port is:
>>
>> Probing system devices
>> Error: /packages/dropins: Last Trap Corrected ECC Error
>> Error -256
>> Dictionary overflow - here f00a4894 limit f00b0000
>>
>> and the system sits there idle with the fans at full speed... no scree
>> output, no keyboard LEDs, and the power button is alight and not
>> blinking.
>>
>> I searched SunSolve but to no avail.
>>
>> Here is some additional information --- in the hope that it gives a
>> helpful soul some ideas --- :
>>
>> - I have the following DIMMs in bank0: 4 x 128 Mb
>> SN: 501448978033641
>>
>>
>> - I'm trying to add, in bank1, the following: 4 x 128 Mb
>> SN: 501448944K00BHW
>>
>> - I'm respecting the Service Manual instructions relative to the
>> memory upgrade.
>>
>
> You may try to put the existing ones to Bank 1 or leave them out and
> the new ones to Bank 0.
>
> Some time ago I bought two 512MB modules for my SunBlade 150 to
> upgrade from 1,5 GB to 2,0 GB. I replaced the old 256MB module in
> Bank0 with the new ones. The system paniced. After swapping the
> modules the system runs very stable again. It seems that the system
> got some timing information or something like that from the first bank
> and the old modules in bank1 where not capable to work with this
> settings.

I tried every combination --- the old DIMMs in bank0 and the new DIMMs
in bank1 and the old DIMMs in bank1 and the new DIMMs in bank0 --- and
got the same error. When I try the old *or* the new DIMMs in bank0
there is no issue --- this eliminates the case of defective new DIMMs.

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After close inspection of the DIMMs I found a difference between the
old and the new ones --- this is marked on a label on one of the
ASICs:

- old: SPD v1.2
- new: SPD 1.14

Also, I got more information on this issue by connecting a terminal on
ttya and setting diag-switch? to true and diag-level to off. Here is
the commented differential list of the log with the old DIMMs in
bank0 and the log with the new ones added in bank1 --- I tried also
the other way, i.e., new in bank0 and old in bank1 with the same
results:

gdiff 0512 1024

< MemSize: 0000.0000.2000.0000
> MemSize: 0000.0000.4000.0000

The size is doubling.

< /pci@8,700000/ebus@5/i2c@1,2e: nvram idprom dimm-fru dimm-fru \
dimm-fru dimm-fru
> /pci@8,700000/ebus@5/i2c@1,2e: nvram idprom dimm-fru dimm-fru \
dimm-fru dimm-fru dimm-fru dimm-fru dimm-fru dimm-fru

There are 8 DIMMs instead of 4, this is promising...

< Segment @ Base: 0 Size: 512 MB ( 2-Way)
> Segment @ Base: 0 Size: 1024 MB ( 4-Way)

The doubling of the size is confirmed!

< /pci@8,700000: Device 5 network firewire usb device keyboard \
mouse
> Error -256
> Dictionary overflow - here f00a4894 limit f00b0000

but here it borks...

Is this a FORTH/OBP issue? The current OBP on the system is
4.16.4 2004/12/18 05:18

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