From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 19 00:11:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16127 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (root@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16097 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:11:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from win95.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA04559; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 04:13:05 GMT Message-ID: <000a01bd530e$24990ea0$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu> From: "Alfred Perlstein" To: "spork" , "Warner Losh" Cc: "John Polstra" , , Subject: Re: SMP kernel on Compaq anyone? Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 03:08:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG there is an option in the LINT kernel to tell the machine not to trust the bios for the memory count, you can "hard wire" it. -Alfred -----Original Message----- From: spork To: Warner Losh Cc: John Polstra ; lem@cantv.net ; hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 10:14 PM Subject: Re: SMP kernel on Compaq anyone? > >On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Warner Losh wrote: > >> hmmm, that would explain why my presario reports 16M of memory when >> it, in fact, has 40M in it.... > >I have an old "ProSignia" (can't find a real model # no matter how hard I >try) that refuses to see more than 8M. I've thrown every kind of RAM >known to man in the thing. The "press F1 on reboot" thing is very >annoying as well. > >I do marvel at the FBSD VM stuff; it's just a measly 486/66 and it is >still able to run http/https, samba, dhcp, mail, sshd, web-proxy, and a >hacked up mail-web gateway with more speed than you would think could come >out of a 486 with 8M of memory. > >The thing you have to remember with Compaq is that you are screwed if you >use anything without a Compaq part number on it. Support stops the minute >you throw non-Compaq parts in it. Makes tech support easy for *them*, >but... > >Charles > >> >> I kinda like the torx T15 screws that they use to hold it together :-) >> Good luck finding them in the store, however. >> >> Warner >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message