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To: Jason Wright <jason@oozoo.vnet.net>
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Subject: Re: 32Mb memory only seeing 16M 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 14:57:57 -0800
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>I've got 32Mb of memory in a 486dx2/66 with ISA and PCI slots.  But
>as FreeBSD boots it only sees 16Mb.  I read through the FAQ and the
>only mention is that FreeBSD has BOUNCE_BUFFERS (which are enabled
>in the kernel I'm running) which all the use of 32Mb of memory.
>Any thoughts?

   Look in your BIOS configuration for anything that might sound like it would
create a hole in the 15MB-16MB region. This is an option that people sometimes
use when they need more shared memory space than just the 640K-1MB hole
provides.

-DG