SUMMARY: Tools for Ultra-1 Memory Upgrade

From: Jesus Cea Avion <jcea_at_argo.es>
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 08:04:21 EST
ORIGINAL QUESTION:

I just bought a Kingston 256MBytes upgrade for a Sun Ultra-1 machine.

Since downtime for that machine should be the minimum possible, I'd like
to know if I need special tools in order to disassemble the machine and
install the modules inside.

I already have "standard" tools and I'm familiar with hardware changes
in other architectures.

I'll summarize.

ANSWERS:

Sean Berry - berry@housebsd.org
Rivera, Angel R - Angel.R.Rivera@conoco.com
David Foster - foster@dim.ucsd.edu
Mark Cohen - markc@neo.binaryfaith.com
Jay Lessert - jayl@accelerant.net
Larye Parkins - LParkins@niaid.nih.gov
Ruddy, Robert - robertruddy@firstusa.com
willief - willief@base-2.com
UnixAdmin - sunixadm@yahoo.com
Joseph Herpers - joeh@stsolutions.com
Jeff Horwitz - jhorwitz75@yahoo.com
Paul Wilkinson - Paul_Wilkinson@utsglobal.com

"use a plan and simple Phillips screwdriver".

"memconf" to visualize memory banks usage:
http://www.webpak.net/~tschmidt/unix.html

Service manual:
http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.265.1/SS11SERVICE/@Ab2TocView?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1

http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.265.1/U1CSERVICE/@Ab2PageView/5942?DwebQuery=ultra+OR+1&oqt=ultra+1&Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1

MY RESULT:

Kingston sends instruction about the memory upgrade, but they don't
cover the machine case.

Most emails refer to a "phillips" screwdriver. I didn't know what a
"phillips" screw was, so I use some "chewing gum" to get a "head model"
of the screw, since I had no direct visual access to the machine rear
part.

In Spain such screws are called "star screw", by evident reasons ;-).
Standard tool indeed :-).

The upgrade process was simple and fast (<5 min). Thanks all of you.

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