Nekonomicon - Working RAM Part Numbers for 1st-gen Altix Systems

smj
From Berkeley, CA, USA, NA, Earth, Sol
Who joined Nov. 12, 2007, 7:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 26, 2013, 2:37 a.m...

Apparently the Altix 350 can be a little fussy about what RAM is installed, and I'm finding it difficult to identify known-working parts. A few searches of the forum going back to 2006 didn't add much. If you've got the part numbers for something you know works in these systems, please feel free to share it in this thread.

The same parts look like they should be compatible between the Altix 3000, 330, 350, and Prism systems...

WORKING
512MB: Micron MT18VDDF6472DG-335G2 (PC3200, x72, ECC, Registered)*
512MB: Samsung M312L6423ETS-CB3 - PC2700R-25331-Z (PC2700, DDR, CL2.5 ECC)

1GB: DATARAM 63674 / DTP63674B (01088204069)
1GB: Micron MT18VDDF12872-335C3 - PC2700R-25331-H0 (1GB, DDR, 333, CL2.5, ECC, REG)

2GB: DATARAM 63692 / DTP63692E A0 - DDR 184pin PC2700 ECC Registered
2GB: Smart SME72564FD8C0CGSG - 184P-DDR-2GB-PC2700 ECC-REG

NOT WORKING
1GB: gigaram GR75020-E1GB/333/MTL - 128MX72 PC2700 CL2.5 ECC, REG
1GB: Micron MT18VDDF12872G-335D3 - PC2700R-25331-J0 (1GB, DDR, 333, CL2.5, ECC, REG) - HP P/N 331562-051
1GB: Kingston KVR266X72RC25/1024 - 128Mx72 PC2100 (1GB, DDR, 266, CL2.5, ECC, REG

2GB: Elpida EBD21RD4ADNA-6B - PC2700R-25330-N1 (2GB, DDR, 333, CL2.5, ECC, REG) - HP P/N 331563-051
2GB: Kingston KTH-DL145/4G - 2GB, DDR, 333MHz, ECC, REG - for HP DL145 G2
2GB: Micron MT36VDDF25672G-335D2 - PC2700R-25331-Z (2GB, DDR, 333, CL2.5, ECC, REG)
2GB: Samsung M312L5720DZ3-CB3 - PC2700R-25331-F3 (PC2700, DDR, CL2.5, ECC) - HP P/N 331563-051

4GB: DATARAM 63716 - PC2700R (4GB, DDR, 333MHz, ECC, REG)**† (stacked chips on these DIMMs)

* Part number was included in a hinv posting from a working system; parenthetical bits from a web site
** Details from a printed tag from eCyclePro, claimed to have been tested with a RAMCHECK tester
† There's no documentation of 4GB DIMMs working in A350s, YMMV.

Edit: Added the DATARAM 63716 part.

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hamei
From over the rainbow
Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 26, 2013, 4:10 a.m...

smj wrote: WORKING
1GB: Micron MT18VDDF12872 (PC3200, x72, ECC, Registered)**

Have a pair of

1GB: Micron MT18VDDF12872-335C3 but they are

PC2700R-25331-H0
1GB DDR 333 CL2.5 ECC REG

Can confirm on the Dataram DTP63674B 1 gigs

Adrenaline
From Laurel, MD USA
Who joined Feb. 10, 2005, 12:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 26, 2013, 4:30 a.m...

I've got some Samsung 2gb sticks on their way will post if they work or not.

33mhz R3k/48mb/XS24 :Indy:

150mhz R4400/256mb/XL24 :Fuel:

600mhz R14kA/2gb/V10

8x1.4ghz Itanium 2/8GB :O3x08R:

32x600mhz R14kA/24GB :Tezro:

4x700mhz R16k/8GB/V12/DCD/SAS/FC/DM5 (2x) :O3x0:

4x700mhz R16k/4GB :PrismDT:

2x1.6ghz 8mb/12gb/SAS/2xFGL

miod
From Orgerus (France)
Who joined Oct. 9, 2009, 2:44 a.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 26, 2013, 10:43 a.m...

Mine is fitted with 8x Samsung M312L6423ETS-CB3 - PC2700R-25331-Z (PC2700, DDR1, CL2.5 ECC). Funny enough, on the identification sticker, some of them sport `0410' on the top right corner, while the others sport `0411', but there are no other visible differences.

R4000

R4400

R8000

R10000

R4000PC

R4000SC

R4600

R5000SC

R5000

RM7000

2xR10000

R12000

2xR12000

-

2x2xR10000 :Fuel:

R16000

4xR16000

among more than 150 machines : Apollo, Data General, Digital, HP, IBM, MIPS before SGI , Motorola, NeXT, SGI, Solbourne, Sun...

jan-jaap
Donor
From Wijchen, The Netherlands
Who joined June 17, 2004, 11:35 a.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 26, 2013, noon..

miod wrote: Funny enough, on the identification sticker, some of them sport `0410' on the top right corner, while the others sport `0411', but there are no other visible differences.

Probably different production dates, week 10 resp. week 11 of 2004.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

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(2x)

In the museum : almost every MIPS/IRIX system.
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Adrenaline
From Laurel, MD USA
Who joined Feb. 10, 2005, 12:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 26, 2013, 8:03 p.m...

smj wrote: NOT WORKING
2GB: Micron MT36VDDF25672G-335D2 - PC2700R-25331-Z (PC2700R, DDR1, 333MHz, CL2.5, ECC, Registered)

Double checked the 8 sticks of these I have - they show up disabled upon boot in my Prism, resetting the errors/reseating doesn't do a thing.

So if someone needs/wants them - let me know, I have no use for them outside of my Altix 350s/Prism.

33mhz R3k/48mb/XS24 :Indy:

150mhz R4400/256mb/XL24 :Fuel:

600mhz R14kA/2gb/V10

8x1.4ghz Itanium 2/8GB :O3x08R:

32x600mhz R14kA/24GB :Tezro:

4x700mhz R16k/8GB/V12/DCD/SAS/FC/DM5 (2x) :O3x0:

4x700mhz R16k/4GB :PrismDT:

2x1.6ghz 8mb/12gb/SAS/2xFGL

BetXen
From Vevey, Switzerland
Who joined Sept. 21, 2004, 12:05 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 27, 2013, 12:58 a.m...

I have lots of the following 2GB ram parts. All of them work perfectly:

Dataram DTP63692E A0: DDR 184pin PC2700 ECC Registered
Smart SME72564FD8C0CGSG: 184P-DDR-2GB-PC2700 ECC-REG

: oxygen (4xR12k400) / :A3504L:

: neon (16xI2 1.6, 9MB L2) / :O200:

: beryllium (4xR12k270)
:Fuel:

: nitrogen (R16k800) / :Octane2:

: carbon (2xR14k600) / :Octane:

: lithium (R10k400) / :Octane:

: fluorine (2xR12k300) / spare 2xR12k360
:O2:

: hydrogen (R10k195) / :O2:

: sodium (R5k180) / :O2:

: R5k180->200 MB and PM only
:Indigo2IMP:

: helium (R10k195, HighImpact) / :Indigo2IMP:

: boron (R4k250)/ :Indigo:

: magnesium (R4k100) / :Indy:

: aluminium (R5k180)
:4D70GT:

4D70GT : my very first one (now property of musée bolo and the foundation mémoires informatiques )
See the hinv/gfxinfo posts here .

Adrenaline
From Laurel, MD USA
Who joined Feb. 10, 2005, 12:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 27, 2013, 5:38 a.m...

BetXen wrote: I have lots of the following 2GB ram parts. All of them work perfectly:

Dataram DTP63692E A0: DDR 184pin PC2700 ECC Registered
Smart SME72564FD8C0CGSG: 184P-DDR-2GB-PC2700 ECC-REG

If the 24gb of Samsung I just bought don't work I may take you up on that.

33mhz R3k/48mb/XS24 :Indy:

150mhz R4400/256mb/XL24 :Fuel:

600mhz R14kA/2gb/V10

8x1.4ghz Itanium 2/8GB :O3x08R:

32x600mhz R14kA/24GB :Tezro:

4x700mhz R16k/8GB/V12/DCD/SAS/FC/DM5 (2x) :O3x0:

4x700mhz R16k/4GB :PrismDT:

2x1.6ghz 8mb/12gb/SAS/2xFGL

BetXen
From Vevey, Switzerland
Who joined Sept. 21, 2004, 12:05 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 27, 2013, 12:22 p.m...

Unfortunately, I think that all of them are installed in my blades. Have to check if I have spares. Let me know.

: oxygen (4xR12k400) / :A3504L:

: neon (16xI2 1.6, 9MB L2) / :O200:

: beryllium (4xR12k270)
:Fuel:

: nitrogen (R16k800) / :Octane2:

: carbon (2xR14k600) / :Octane:

: lithium (R10k400) / :Octane:

: fluorine (2xR12k300) / spare 2xR12k360
:O2:

: hydrogen (R10k195) / :O2:

: sodium (R5k180) / :O2:

: R5k180->200 MB and PM only
:Indigo2IMP:

: helium (R10k195, HighImpact) / :Indigo2IMP:

: boron (R4k250)/ :Indigo:

: magnesium (R4k100) / :Indy:

: aluminium (R5k180)
:4D70GT:

4D70GT : my very first one (now property of musée bolo and the foundation mémoires informatiques )
See the hinv/gfxinfo posts here .

Adrenaline
From Laurel, MD USA
Who joined Feb. 10, 2005, 12:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 27, 2013, 2:30 p.m...

BetXen wrote: Unfortunately, I think that all of them are installed in my blades. Have to check if I have spares. Let me know.

They are due to come Thursday so I'll try them then and otherwise I'll just swing by smj's house this weekend and trade him some great Micron 2gb sticks

33mhz R3k/48mb/XS24 :Indy:

150mhz R4400/256mb/XL24 :Fuel:

600mhz R14kA/2gb/V10

8x1.4ghz Itanium 2/8GB :O3x08R:

32x600mhz R14kA/24GB :Tezro:

4x700mhz R16k/8GB/V12/DCD/SAS/FC/DM5 (2x) :O3x0:

4x700mhz R16k/4GB :PrismDT:

2x1.6ghz 8mb/12gb/SAS/2xFGL

smj
From Berkeley, CA, USA, NA, Earth, Sol
Who joined Nov. 12, 2007, 7:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 27, 2013, 3:16 p.m...

Thanks for the update BetXen, that's great info!

Adrenaline: Er, what? I have four lonely 1GB DIMMs for the Altii, the rest are lowly Samsung 512's.

(waves hand) These are not the DIMMs you are looking for . :mrgreen:

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Adrenaline
From Laurel, MD USA
Who joined Feb. 10, 2005, 12:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 28, 2013, 2:41 p.m...

I think I am going to throw my hat in on buying and trying new dimms, these 12 sticks came up as disabled. Tried reseating and resetting to no avail.

33mhz R3k/48mb/XS24 :Indy:

150mhz R4400/256mb/XL24 :Fuel:

600mhz R14kA/2gb/V10

8x1.4ghz Itanium 2/8GB :O3x08R:

32x600mhz R14kA/24GB :Tezro:

4x700mhz R16k/8GB/V12/DCD/SAS/FC/DM5 (2x) :O3x0:

4x700mhz R16k/4GB :PrismDT:

2x1.6ghz 8mb/12gb/SAS/2xFGL

tjsgifan
From Hampshire, UK
Who joined Sept. 14, 2004, 3:03 a.m.

Wrote the following at Aug. 30, 2013, 2:05 a.m...

I have 40+ DTP63692B 2GB DIMMs for sale if anyone wants to make me an offer.

And 70+ 512Mb DIMMs part number M312L6423EGO too.

All removed from a working Altix 350

I also have a load of 1.6Ghz 6Mb cache Itanium CPU's if you want

and the power boards if needed.

Might have some others in some chassis I've not looked at for a while.... think we have a complete rack of 350's still in storage, not been switched on for a year and have been robbed of PSU's...

In order of use at the moment..... :Fuel:

Currently looking to buy good :Fuel:

and

machine.

smj
From Berkeley, CA, USA, NA, Earth, Sol
Who joined Nov. 12, 2007, 7:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 1, 2013, 2:51 p.m...

Just for kicks, I tried the Micron 2GB parts again and captured the console. For the record, they were working fine in 32-bit Xeon servers previously.

Note that these 2GB parts give a "CSUMERR" during an L1 "serial dimm" whereas the working DATARAM 1GB parts in the other bank just show "NO DATA". (The Samsung 512's that I have show a version number or something.)

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   EEPROM     JEDEC-SPD Info           Part Number        Rev  Speed  SGI
   

   ---------- ------------------------ ------------------ ---- ------ --------
   

   DIMM0 L    7F9100000000000092170000                    0000    6.0  NO DATA
   

   DIMM1 L    7F910000000000002E2E0000                    0000    6.0  NO DATA
   

   DIMM2 L    2CFFFFFFFFFFFFFF2A18BEFD 36VDDF25672G-335D2 0200    6.0  CSUMERR
   

   DIMM3 L    2CFFFFFFFFFFFFFF4C1460F6 36VDDF25672G-335D2 0200    6.0  CSUMERR
   

   DIMM4 L    no hardware detected
   

   DIMM5 L    no hardware detected
   

   DIMM0 R    7F910000000000007D170000                    0000    6.0  NO DATA
   

   DIMM1 R    7F910000000000007C170000                    0000    6.0  NO DATA
   

   DIMM2 R    2CFFFFFFFFFFFFFF4C1460EC 36VDDF25672G-335D2 0200    6.0  CSUMERR
   

   DIMM3 R    2CFFFFFFFFFFFFFF4C1460ED 36VDDF25672G-335D2 0200    6.0  CSUMERR
   

   DIMM4 R    no hardware detected
   

   DIMM5 R    no hardware detected

If I have the Micron 2GB parts in the lowest bank I get the same condition shown here, but the EFI won't start with a complaint that there's no RAM available (regardless of what's in the next bank).

Continuing on, I get multi-bit failures when the Micron 2GB parts are being initialized/tested. Things like "ACT:0x000f0f0f0f, EXP:0x00ffffffff" make me think there's some sort of banking/interleave thing going amiss here.

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   001c01-L1>pwr up
   

   001c01-L1>
   

   entering console mode  001c01 CPU0, <CTRL_T> to escape to L1
   

   001c01#0c: SGI SAL Version 5.04 rel081111 IP41 built 07:25:21 AM Nov 11, 2008
   

   001c01#0a: SGI SAL Version 5.04 rel081111 IP41 built 07:25:21 AM Nov 11, 2008
   

   Found I/O brick attached to module/001c01/slab/0/node
   

   Probing memory DIMMs ......................             DONE
   

   Initializing memory controller ............             DONE
   

   Testing memory ..........................
   

   MBIST FAILURE Byte Address = 0x400000000 (Approximate)
   

   MBIST_REG:X_RP_L, ACT:0x001f9f0f0f, EXP:0x00ffffffff, DIF:0x00e060f0f0
   

   MBIST_ERR, FRU:001c01.0 DIMM2_N0_R_BUS_X, ADDR:0x400000000, DIMM_BITS:44,45,46,4
   

   7,52,53,54,55, ...
   

   MBIST_REG:X_RS_L, ACT:0x0f0f0f0f1f, EXP:0xffffffffff, DIF:0xf0f0f0f0e0
   

   MBIST_ERR, FRU:001c01.0 DIMM2_N0_R_BUS_X, ADDR:0x400000000, DIMM_BITS:5,6,7,12,1
   

   3,14,15,20, ...
   

   MBIST_REG:X_LP_L, ACT:0x000f0f0f0f, EXP:0x00ffffffff, DIF:0x00f0f0f0f0
   

   MBIST_ERR, FRU:001c01.0 DIMM2_N0_L_BUS_X, ADDR:0x400000000, DIMM_BITS:44,45,46,4
   

   7,52,53,54,55, ...
   

   MBIST_REG:X_LS_L, ACT:0x0f1f0f0f0f, EXP:0xffffffffff, DIF:0xf0e0f0f0f0
   

   MBIST_ERR, FRU:001c01.0 DIMM2_N0_L_BUS_X, ADDR:0x400000000, DIMM_BITS:4,5,6,7,12
   

   ,13,14,15, ...
   

   MBIST_REG:Y_RP_L, ACT:0x000f0f0f0f, EXP:0x00ffffffff, DIF:0x00f0f0f0f0
   

   MBIST_ERR, FRU:001c01.0 DIMM3_N0_R_BUS_Y, ADDR:0x400000000, DIMM_BITS:44,45,46,4
   

   7,52,53,54,55, ...
   

   MBIST_REG:Y_RS_L, ACT:0x0f0f0f0f0f, EXP:0xffffffffff, DIF:0xf0f0f0f0f0
   

   MBIST_ERR, FRU:001c01.0 DIMM3_N0_R_BUS_Y, ADDR:0x400000000, DIMM_BITS:4,5,6,7,12
   

   ,13,14,15, ...
   

   MBIST_REG:Y_LP_L, ACT:0x000f1f0f0f, EXP:0x00ffffffff, DIF:0x00f0e0f0f0
   

   MBIST_ERR, FRU:001c01.0 DIMM3_N0_L_BUS_Y, ADDR:0x400000000, DIMM_BITS:44,45,46,4
   

   7,52,53,54,55, ...
   

   MBIST_REG:Y_LS_L, ACT:0x0f0f0f0f0f, EXP:0xffffffffff, DIF:0xf0f0f0f0f0
   

   MBIST_ERR, FRU:001c01.0 DIMM3_N0_L_BUS_Y, ADDR:0x400000000, DIMM_BITS:4,5,6,7,12
   

   ,13,14,15, ...
   

   

   MULTI-BIT DIFFERENCE DETECTED DURING MEMORY BIST:
   

   Location 001c01#0 DIMM2 N0_L_BUS_X received 2 multi-bit mbist error(s).
   

   Location 001c01#0 DIMM3 N0_L_BUS_Y received 2 multi-bit mbist error(s).
   

   Location 001c01#0 DIMM2 N0_R_BUS_X received 2 multi-bit mbist error(s).
   

   Location 001c01#0 DIMM3 N0_R_BUS_Y received 2 multi-bit mbist error(s).
   

   

   Module 001c01#0  Bank 1 failed memory tests..               DONE
   

   Initializing memory ....................                DONE
   

   

   <...>
   

   

   EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.62]
   

   

   Partition  0:                           Enabled Disabled
   

   CBricks          1         Nodes          1        0
   

   RBricks          0         CPUs           2        0
   

   IOBricks         1         Mem(GB)        4        8
   

   

   Loading device drivers
   

   <...>

Anyway giving up on these Micron parts, but there's some info that might prove useful to those testing additional parts in future.

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smj
From Berkeley, CA, USA, NA, Earth, Sol
Who joined Nov. 12, 2007, 7:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at Dec. 4, 2013, 9:03 p.m...

Another PC2700R DIMM that does not appear to work in an Altix 350:

gigaram
128MX72 PC2700 CL2.5 ECC REG
GR75020-E1GB/333/MTL
R372-022-1A (DDR333 DRAM)

I also mistakenly picked up was sent four Samsung 2GB M3125720... instead of the pictured Infineon parts, because both had HP part number 331563-051 - which I believe I've also seen on the known-bad Micron MT36... parts. So anything with that HP P/N is probably out, and odds are high any adjacent P/N in different capacity is suspect as well.

I have some Elpida parts coming to try, and some Kingston. And some Micron MT18VDDF12872 G parts which I'm now more dubious of, since they carry HP P/N 331562-051...

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Working RAM Part Numbers for 1st-gen Altix Systems