Re: SS20 IDPROM chip

For a SS20, I'd go for a brand new M48T18-100PC1. It won't fit in the 
original plastic carrier, but it fits in the socket.

Alex Carver wrote:
> The chip is also reusable if you carve off the plastic at one end to
> expose the battery terminals.  I've done this to a couple IPXes,
> soldering a small button battery holder to the chip with some wire
> and then gluing the button holder to the top of the chip.  Now I can
> replace the battery anytime it dies and I don't have CRC errors
> caused by the newer versions of the chip (which I've also tried).

I'd be surprised if there were any CRC errors with a new chip in a SS20. 
For sun4c machines, like the IPX, it's a different chip and a different 
story.