From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 08:20:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA29661 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA29656 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:20:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrantr@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA01527 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:20:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from col-oh20-22.ix.netcom.com(207.220.130.118) by dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma001494; Mon Oct 27 10:19:41 1997 Message-ID: <3454C01D.7C9@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:23:58 -0500 From: Richard Scranton Reply-To: scrantr@ix.netcom.com Organization: LDA Systems, Columbus X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions-digest V3 #502 References: <199710270751.XAA24094@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk More likely, memory interleaving is hosed because of the different sized chips. Same suggestion - go back to 16 megs. -rs > > From: Julian Elischer > Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:47:13 -0800 (PST) > Subject: Re: new RAM question > > try backing down to 16 > > maybe your board only caches 16MB? (if it's old?) > remember a single cache miss is bad.. I've had this on a 486 motherboard.. > the manufacturer had a PAL upgrade for the cache controller. > > On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Dean wrote: > > > BSDibes, > > I've got a 486 DX-33 with a 486 (I think) motherboard. Friday, I went > > from 8 Megs to 20 Megs of RAM - from eight 1 Meg sims to four 4 Meg and > > four 1 Meg sims. I've got eight 30 pin slots. Well, the problem is that > > my system now crawls - like it is only recognizine the four 1 Meg sims. I > > just installed FreeBSD, so I assume I've got the latest version. I didn't > > think that there was anything I had to do in addition to ploping in the > > sims. Any ideas? Thanks, > > Dean > > -- ___________________________________________________________________ Richard Scranton - LDA Systems - Information Management Consulting scrantr@ix.netcom.com Columbus Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo Atlanta My Employer: