From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 02:37:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA29959 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:37:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA29954 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:37:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA03524; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:34:02 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA13687; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:34:01 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA26067; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:24:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601091024.LAA26067@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adding additional memory banks To: joed@engg.ksu.edu (Joe Diehl) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:24:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601090714.BAA29539@bilbo.me.ksu.edu> from "Joe Diehl" at Jan 9, 96 01:14:54 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Joe Diehl wrote: > > As lame as this may sound, I am interested in purchasing an isa card > for my freebsd box so that I may add an additional 8-1x9 simms. Should > there be any problem in seting the machine up with the additional banks > under FreeBSD, and/or are there any particulary boards that you would > recommend for doing this? I don't think you can add _real_ memory (not EMM or something like this) with an ISA board. You need some sort of a ``local bus'' for it, most ISA boards i've seen with such a thing had something like a reverse ISA slot designed for a proprietary memory expansion. The ISA bus itself is IMHO too slow. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)