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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: madbrain@ibm.net (Julien Pierre) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: Can I mix memory speeds Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 02:17:33 -0400 Organization: Somewhere in Cyberspace Lines: 35 Message-ID: <9H22xQxFKt5O089yn@ibm.net> References: <4rbvq2$34i@news.enterprise.net> Reply-To: madbrain@ibm.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip129-37-246-66.fl.us.ibm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.hardware:43289 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:156392 comp.os.os2.setup.misc:16793 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22794 Hello ! In article <4rbvq2$34i@news.enterprise.net>, sparky@enterprise.net wrote: >I currently have the following setup.... > >Tyan Titan III Motherboard >P120 >16 Mb 60ns Ram > >...and I run Os/2 warp, Linux (slakware 2.3), Freebsd v2.1 and WIn '95 (Yes I know >I'm greedy ;-)). I want to upgrade to 32Mb and have a good offer on some RAM >but its 60ns EDO-RAM. >Will this cause problems for me? Has anyone else mixed EDO & non-EDO RAM with >any of these OS's?? I know on Os/2 2.1 there was the possibility of a TRAP 0E error >is this the same on Warp ?? > >Any known problems on the hardware?? I'm about to E-mail Tyan directly, but I >would still like to hear from the people who count.....the users. If you get Tyan to answer e-mail, I'd be interested. Anyway, you should have no problems with mixing RAM types in different banks. I do this with my Tyan Tomcat II : - 2 16 MB 60 ns Fast Page SIMMs in bank 0 - 2 32 MB 60 ns EDO SIMMs in bank 1 Works fine. -- //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Julien R. Pierre // Developer of Digital Sound & Music Interface for OS/2 (DSMI/2) // http://www.netsrq.com/~madbrain - DSMI/2 homepage // http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/Henry/Madbrain - personal page // Certified OS/2 Engineer - Multimedia Developer - 1-941-366-5355