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- From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen)
- Subject: Re: Does 386BSD work on systems with 20 megabytes of memory! HELP!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.082629.3222@convex.com>
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- Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation
- References: <287902vW30DE01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Distribution: comp.unix.bsd
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:26:29 GMT
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- In article <287902vW30DE01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, tjw00@zombie.uucp (Tom Wye) writes:
- |> Does 386BSD work on machines with 20 megabytes of memory or more? HELP!!!!
- |>
- |> The system slowly crashs and burns when I boot with 20 megabytes of storage
- |> installed. The same kernel runs ok with 4 megabytes.
- |> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> My configuration is as follows:
- |>
- |> PC Clone
- |> Motherboard: NICE 486DX50 Mhz 256K cache
- |> AMI BIOS
- |> Memory in bank 0 - 4 x 1m sims for 4M
- |> Memory in bank 1 - 4 x 4m sims for 16M
- |> Adaptec 1542BB
- This is it, the Adaptec can only DMA into the lower 16M of RAM ... you loose.
- You need an Adaptec 174x (EISA) or change the code in the driver to use a
- buffer and copy the data for requests outside the first 16M.
- Regards
- Stefan
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- Stefan Grefen Convex Computer GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
- grefen@convex.com Phone: +49-69-665270
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