Re: Anyone got any Axil material?

On 8/19/13 5:19 PM, Hessel Keegstra wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:23 AM, Alan Perry wrote:
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>> On 8/19/13 1:48 PM, Hessel Keegstra wrote:
>>> On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Alan Perry wrote:
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>>>> On Aug 19, 2013, at 8:13 AM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>>> On 19 August 2013 13:20,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Solbourne made a lot of SPARC machines. I don't know if made clones though.
>>>>> AFAIK the Axils were all clones and ran the same SunOS/Solaris/BSD/etc
>>>>> as a genuine Sun box.
>>>> How about the h/w?  I would like to put more memory in my Axil and the SS20 memory available on memoryx is a lot less expensive for a real SS20 vs an Axil 320.
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>>>> Also, there is a socket next to the memory sockets that I don't recognize.
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>>> If it is a SS20 clone, there are two extra sockets next to the 200 pin SIM socket J0304 and J0305 that allow for special VSIM modules to be installed. VSIM modules are special RAM modules holding video RAM enabling the onboard CG14 (SX) video board. Installing a VSIM reduces the total amount of main memory that can be installed. Nowadays these VSIMs are pretty close to unobtainium.
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>>> If memory serves me well there were also special battery backed SIM modules that could be installed in J0304 and J0305. I have several SS20 machines with VSIM modules but never encountered any of these battery backup SIMs.
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>>  From my web searches, it looks like the Axil 320 is laid out internally and labelled more like a SS10 than SS20.  The VSIMM socket extensions are J0401 and J0402 and are on the SBus 2/3 side of the SIMM sockets.
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> After some digging in my garage I found a SS10 and indeed the two SIMM sockets with the video SIM extension connector are labelled like yours, J0401 and J0402. Well, perhaps your machine is more like a SS10 clone. I am not a big fan of the SS10 and I hope Axil did not copy the dismal airflow as in the SUN SS10 original. The airflow in the SS10 (or better the lack of any) is even worse compared to the poor cooling in the later SS20. If your machine is more like a SS10 then please also take into account that a SS10 is more picky accepting SIMM modules. My SS10 machines categorically refuse to accept any of my 32MB SIMM modules (I have piles of those from a mix of different vendors), modules that work perfectly in my SS20s and Ultra1s.
Everything that I have found on the Axil 320 describes it as a SS20 clone.

alan
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