[c-nsp] npe-300 gt 256m?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:49:22PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 	has anyone gotten a npe-300 to take more than 256m of
> ram out there?

I've tried it, but it didn't work out - that is, putting a 256 Mb DIMM
into slot 2 (and nothing in slot 3) made it come up with 256 Mb, and
128+128 in 2+3 made it see 256 Mb, but all combinations with 256 Mb
in Slot 2 and "something" in Slot 3 made it crash (no bootstrap messages
at all).

Of course that's 256 Mb + 32 Mb in Slot 0.

> 	earlier today i was able to  get my npe-300 to
> boot up and think it had more than 256m (384)
> 
> System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(1r) [dchih 1r], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> Copyright (c) 2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> 
> *********************************************************
> 
> ROM: DIMM 0 is not the factory fixed/supported 32MB DIMM!
> ROM: Please replace DIMM 0 with the original 32MB DIMM.

... as this message definitely scared me away when accidently replacing
the 32 Mb DIMM 0 with "something else" during earlier experiments.

> *********************************************************
> C7200 platform with 393216 Kbytes of main memory

*Interesting*.

So what happens after bootup?

gert
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