From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 25 21:31:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA04593 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA04584 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id XAA01970; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:30:19 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma001921; Sat Apr 26 04:30:08 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970425233247.00b2da68@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:32:48 -0500 To: Robert Withrow From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:01 PM 4/24/97 -0400, Robert Withrow wrote: >Can someone tell my why WIN95 can figure out I have 128M in this machine >(with no special help from me) and FreeBSD can't? I don't like the idea >of WIN95 being smarter than FreeBSD.... ;-) Smarter? Not! I've seen 2 95 machines that would not recognize more than 64Mb and yes BIOS did see it, nor did it violate any rules for the number of "sides" for memory. Good 'ole errartic MS. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990