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- From: pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer)
- Subject: Re: Memory expansion and AMI BIOS
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- References: <1993Jan18.155720.131133@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl> <1993Jan20.002151.755@newshost.lanl.gov>,<C15oxs.yp@sci.kun.nl> <1993Jan23.161519.1395@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:29:44 GMT
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- In <1993Jan23.161519.1395@ultb.isc.rit.edu> ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
-
- >In article <C15oxs.yp@sci.kun.nl>, pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer) writes:
- >>In <1993Jan20.002151.755@newshost.lanl.gov> masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten) writes:
- >>
- >>[...] I assume that the chipset disables the RAM in the area that
- >>is needed for interface cards (the top 384k), without being able to
- >>move it to another place in the memory map. It is partly used for
- >>shadowing, though.
- >
- >It IS used for shadowing. If you disable all ROM BIOS shadow features you'll
- >find you can get the 384K back. But then you also get slower VGA and system
- >BIOS calls to ROM insteads of fast shadowed RAM.
-
- Forget it. Don't you think I tried? The 384k is unreachable except for
- shadowing. I am fairly certain that this is dependent on the chipset.
- Some chipsets are able to move this RAM, some are not. It definitely
- cannot stay where it is, because in prehistory IBM decided to use the
- entire top 384K of the first 1Meg for I/F & ROM.
-
- Peter Herweijer
- pieterh@sci.kun.nl
-