From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 11 20: 7:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C6437B7EF; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA30489; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:37:04 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:37:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: Anthony Rubin , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asus K7V with Crucial PC133 ECC RAM Message-ID: <20000712123704.E30262@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <002501bfeb9a$36bbc6f0$b8850140@r2d2> <200007120100.SAA00561@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200007120100.SAA00561@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 18:00:55 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> I recently put together a system that uses the Asus K7V motherboard with >> Crucial PC133 ECC RAM. I bought 2 128MB DIMMs. The BIOS is seeing the RAM >> correctly as 264144K, but FreeBSD has 262064K listed under real memory. I >> thought this was odd and wanted to make sure one of the DIMMs wasn't bad so >> I removed both and then tried one at a time. No matter which DIMM I use and >> which slot I put it in the BIOS sees 131072K and FreeBSD sees 130992K. The >> only other thing that is strange about this setup is that the K7V BIOS >> currently has a known problem when you enable ECC so ECC is currently >> disabled on my board. Below is the portion of dmesg I am referring to. >> >>> dmesg | grep memory >> real memory = 268353536 (262064K bytes) >> avail memory = 256950272 (250928K bytes) > > There's nothing wrong with your RAM - some of it is being used by the > kernel. I think he's referring to the 80 kB that don't show up in real memory. I'd assume that's the BIOS. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message