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Skriven 2007-02-21 12:52:40 av David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306.0)
   Kommentar till text 9499 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: OT: looking older memory
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mark lewis wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:


 ml> the main thing i'm interested in is getting at least 128M in the
 ml> box... more is always better but i'm limited in what that box can
 ml> handle... 

 DC> 72pin is limited to 32mb per stick. 

 ml> i keep finding 64meggers but most all of them say that the refresh
 ml> needs to be able to do 4k... i think this P6KPI board has an FX
 ml> chipset and from what i read, that's limited to 2k refreshes...
 ml> according to the manual, this board will handle up to 1Gig of RAM
 ml> but that is will all the banks full, 72's and 168's... 

 DC> The 168pin sticks might be available up to 128mb and you might 
 DC> have a mobo that would allow 4 32mb sticks plus one or two 168pin 
 DC> 5V dimms. I'd look on eBay for something that old if you can't 
 DC> find someone who has some laying around. I have some 72pin sticks 
 DC> around here somewhere but keep them to stick into printers and all 
 DC> my other dimms are newer than the 5v stuff. 

 DC> Good luck finding it... or go to a computer show/flea market and
 DC> get a newer mobo that uses more recent dimms and you can go up to
 DC> 512mb or more. A PIII class system would likely blow whatever you
 DC> are playing with out of the water.  

 ml> no can do on getting another board... the one i'm trying to fix up
 ml> is my Warp 3 Connect setup that acts as my main server with _all_
 ml> my servers, bbs and such on it... it is most assuredly a production
 ml> system O:)

Hmmm... do you have a spare hard drive at least as large as the current drive? 

I recall back in the day I got a new hard drive, made my partitions, used xcopy
/h/o/t/s/e/r/v to move the entire contents to the new drive, ran the command to
install the MBR and boot loader files (don't recall off the top of my head as
it was at least 6 years or more ago), put my newly made drive into the 'old'
system, reset the video drivers to base SVGA, take the drive out and mounted it
in a newer class of system, booted it again, installed the needed drivers for
the new video card (if you are not changing video cards/drivers skip the reset
step) and found that the system picked up all of the new hardware without any
issues. 

I know I moved the system from an original early pentium or 486 class system to
a AMD K6-233 and more recently to the KIII-433 system without doing a
re-install. I think i've done a migration like that at least twice on the
original install. 

Note that we aren't touching the live production system at all, other than to
clone it, and even the cloning can happen while the system is mostly live. 

Drive Image or Drive Copy might make it even easier and has a reference to the
command needed to make the resultant copy bootable in OS2. At least the old
versions I had here would do that. 

Note that the system was built well before 94 and has been migrated to newer
hardware (including newer drives) at least twice since and I haven't touched it
other than to power cycle it after a Trap-D and to read email in many many many
years. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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