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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: <1992Dec30.084905.17453@convex.com>
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- Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation
- References: <287902vW30DE01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1992Dec29.082629.3222@convex.com> <1992Dec29.165705.28771@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Distribution: comp.unix.bsd
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:49:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.165705.28771@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, gebhart@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Ralf Gebhart) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec29.082629.3222@convex.com> grefen@convex.com writes:
- |> >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!!!!
- |> >|>
- |> >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.
- |>
- |> I had the same problem and heard about the problem with first 16M and the 1542.
- |> So I put only 16M to my box. Now my question is, does Julian's SCSI-Kit
- |> handle that correctly, e.g. does it use such buffers to avoid direct access
- |> to memory above the 16M ?
- No not yet, go and fix it it's not too hard ... but your system will behave
- funny (at least if you do benchmarks).
- |>
- |> Ralf
- Stefan
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