From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sun Aug 02 1998 - 14:50:25 EDT
Quite possible..
if i have the time monday, i'll call apricorn..
they are TP Proven and thus SHOULD know.. :-)
Alban Gerd Kellerbauer wrote:
> [Bill, please don't reply to me personally, I am also on the list.]
>
> I am aware of the fact that IBM doesn't officially support the 64 MB
> module for the 365X/XD. However, this is not a hardware limitation. It is
> therefore quite possible that the newest BIOS revision 1.10 in fact makes
> it possible to use the module on all 365X/XD. You may remember that HDD's
> over 2.1 GB were not supported either by the early BIOS revisions on this
> machine.
>
> All I am saying that it is working for me on my 365XD with the latest
> BIOS. If somebody else could confirm this on their machine, maybe you
> could be convinced?
>
> Alban
>
> On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Bill Morrow wrote:
>
> > NONE of my memory suppliers have the 365X listed as supporting the 64meg
> > part..
> > you have a very singular machine, 64meg DIMM, both of the foregoing, OR
> > everyone is really dumb.. :-)
> >
> > many have said the 701 will not support the 32meg part.. even IBM said that
> > early on.. and probably still shows that a 16meg part is the max in a 701..
> >
> > (we all know this to be untrue)
> >
> > so it may well be that even though no one SUPPORTS the 64meg part in the
> > 365X, it will work..
> >
> > when asked, i will say it won't work, because i can't tell you it will when
> > my vendors don't sell it for the 365X, AND i have no 365X upon which to
> > experiment..
> > ...
>
> McGill University Nuclear Physics
> Montréal (Québec)
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