Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:46:50 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: lukas@design.de (Lukas Wunner) Cc: mountin.man@mixcom.com, lukas@design.de, lem@cantv.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [fbsd-isp] Designing for a very large ISP Message-ID: <199801121746.LAA20424@home.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <19980112120742.56306@reactor> from Lukas Wunner at "Jan 12, 98 12:07:42 pm"
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> > Since you have a Tyan, what about the S1668 Titan Pro for the > > PPro with 5 PCI slots and up to 1 Gb of memory? > > Have you actually *tested* if this board will grok 1GB of memory or are > you just saying this out of the blue, based on the specs published by > Tyan? If the latter is the case, let me assure you that Tyan's specs > aren't worth a penny when it comes to accurateness. The Tomcat III board > is advertised to support 512MB of RAM, which would be sufficient for our > news machine. However, in contrast to the specs, it actually only supports > a maximum of 256MB of RAM which is not sufficient. I have tested this with > lots of different types of SIMMs and with several permutations of these > SIMMs to no avail. If the machine has been turned off for a while and is > cold, it will (unreliably) report either 256MB or 288MB. In all other > cases, it will report 256MB on bootup. Michael Beckmann has reported > a similar problem: he didn't even manage to get the Tomcat III to work > with 256MB of RAM (the system didn't run too stable). Downgrading to 192MB > would solve the problem. I had the same problem with the III's... The IV's can handle it correctly. The problem with the 3's was having a higher chip count per simm than tyan allowed. (if you read between the lines on their specs)... You *can* get 256MB to work on a III if you use simms with very few chips per somm. Kevin
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