Another bonehead Blizarrd PPC question (about memory).

[Brian]

Well... you can have 256Mb memory on the board. But there's fysics that needs to be considered. One simm needs to be singlesided or at least use very slimmed sice chips to fit. The other simm can be doublesided but there's a chanse it won't fit if it's too big as the diskdrive might come in the way.

[Brian]

You say you have a SquirrelSCSI interface and as the CPU card don't support SCSI there's realy one one SCSI interface left as far as I know and that is some hardware sitting right on the IDE interface called "DataFlyer 1200 SCSI". It supports 2 IDE devices and 5 SCSI devices. Not made any longer and quite hard to come by... I know. :/

[Brian]

I use a singlesided in the socket that mounts the simm flat against the board. I don't know if your card have been trimmed but on mine the CPU pins can touch a regular thick doublesided simm.

The second angled socket won't accomodate a realy big doublesided simm in a desctop as the diskdrive is in the way... a regular doublesided simm should fit with a bit of fiddling and some extra isulation between the simm and the diskdrive (the shield need to be bent away aswell).

And the BPPC040 do work in a desctop as long as there is extra added active cooling and some extra feets to lift the amiga up a bit... Before I towered my A1200 I had the BPPC in my desctop with above mentioned mods. The amiga ran with a 230W PSU of cause (had 2 power inputs to the motherboard to make it work cause I hade loads of other stuff in there awell). :-D