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Question about RAM.

Kenny Chau — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 02:35:04 GMT

Hi everyone,

Without opening the machine case (ie, use commands), how do I know how many RAMs I have in my L-Class machine and which slot the RAM had inserted to and how many free slots that I can use?

Thanks very much.

Re: Question about RAM.

linuxfan — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 02:46:08 GMT

Hi Kenny,

Install STM (Support Tool Manager)

You can get more info about STM and diagnostics from
http://docs.hp.com//hpux/diag/index.html

here's a blurb on STM
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B6191AAE

And you can download STM from
https://software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/try.pl?productNumber=B6191AAE&date=

then run
echo 'selclass qualifier memory;info;wait;infolog' |cstm > /tmp/cstm.mem

the file /tmp/cstm.mem will have the information about the memory simms sizes and their location

-HTH
Ramesh

Re: Question about RAM.

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 02:47:02 GMT

Hi Kenny,

You can use STM to find this out.

Check this thread out for your solution.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x658dabe92dabd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Hope this helps.

thanks

Re: Question about RAM.

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 02:49:42 GMT

Hi Kenny,

Here is some more info on STM.

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=5b987eec1977fa3e1a/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000056435139

Hope this helps.

thanks

Re: Question about RAM.

Kenny Chau — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 02:53:39 GMT

Thanks all for your help. I had run this command and got this result:
Memory Board Inventory

DIMM Slot Size (MB)
--------- ---------
0a 128
1a 128
0b 128
1b 128
--------- ---------
System Total (MB): 512

So it means I had got 512MB RAM but use up all the slots? Or I still have some free slots that I can use?

Thanks.

Re: Question about RAM.

linuxfan — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 03:01:16 GMT

Hi Kenny,

Each memory carrier has 8 slots (0a/0b, 1a/1b, 2a/2b, 3a/3b)

so you still have 4 slots open. Ofcourse you can add another memory carrier (which gives another 8 slots)

but you have to keep in mind when you add new simms, if they are of the same size (in your case 128MB each ) then the next slot you would put it in is 2a/2b (you always add simms in pairs).

If you are adding higher size SIMMS(256 each) then the higher size simms should be before the lower size. so you would add the new 256 MB simms in 0a/0b and move the existing 128MB simms to 2a/2b.

I know there was a document for this, let me check if i can find one.

-HTH
Ramesh

Re: Question about RAM.

linuxfan — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 03:04:27 GMT

Hi Kenny,

Here is the document i was talking about.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/hw/lclass/content/00/04/1M/idd/1.html

If you want to know other information about L-Class, check out

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/hw/lclass/index.html

-HTH
Ramesh