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Nils Ketelsen <[email protected]> writes: > Ben Butler wrote: > >> if anyone had a view on what would happen if I managed to source an >> SDRAM of 512MB / 1GB of the same specification as the 256MB Cisco >> compatible memory that you use in an 7200 NPE225. Cisco say the maximum >> ram for that NPE is a pitiful 256MB, I am sure the memory manufacturers >> will have made larger SDRAMs, while recognising it would be fully >> unsupported what would happen if we tried to stick in a larger memory >> module in the NPE.... > > I am just guessing here, but if the manufacturer says 256MB is the > maximum, I would expect that the unit is not able to address more than > 256MB memory, regardless of the amount you plug in to it. That's not entirely a reasonable conclusion - the npe225 only "supported" 128m and a lot of us were running them with 256m. > Apart from the fact what is better than something else: I think it is > very brave to use unsupported hardware to operate a network. If > something fails, you are on your own then. No support from the vendor. Of course, if you don't have the hardware under support contract in the first place... > One of the things where being brave and being insane are only seperated > by a very thin line ;-) Indeed. ---Rob
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