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- DATE: 28 February 1986
- Number: 134
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- Adding additional memory to the Novell N286A & N286B file servers
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- The Novell N286A server comes delivered with one megabyte of
- memory on the mother board. The N286B server comes with two
- megabytes of memory on the motherboard. Additional memory may be
- added to either of these machines by using some ofthe memory boards
- sold for use in the IBM-PC/AT.
-
- We have sucessfully tested the Advantage! card available from AST
- Research. As the N286A server comes with one megabyte, it is
- necessary to understand how the memory is configured. The first
- 640K of RAM is considered as base memory. The remaining 384K is
- expansion memory. This 384K expansion memory starts at the one
- megabyte level or 1024K. Any addition expansion memory MUST start
- after this memory. This means that additional expansion memory
- MUST start at 1408K. The AST Advantage! allows its memory to start
- at 1408.
-
- After correctly configuring the add-on memory board to start at
- 1408K, run the SETUP program provided with your N286A server. The
- base memory need not bechanged. Configure the expansion memory
- size taking the total number of memory onthe add-on card plus 384K.
- This will give you the total expansion memory size.
-
- The procedure for the N286B server is the same except that it
- already has 1408K of expansion memory in it. Therefore, any
- additional memory that is added MUST start at 2432K. Note that
- some add-on memory boards will only allow selections in increments
- of 512K and therefore are not suitable for use on the Novell N286A
- & N286B servers.
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