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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Joe Karthauser <jlk@pavilion.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: memory in freebsd
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Joe Karthauser wrote:

> Hiya,
> 
> I hope that someone's got the time to help me with this one ;)
> 
> This is the state of things.  I was running FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a pentium
> 120 with 32mb of edo (4 pieces of 8mb).  There were problems with the
> Adaptec device driver and so I put in a 2.1.0 kernel which solved the
> problem.
> 
> I've now bought a pentium 200 pro with 82mb of ram (2 x 32mb in bank0 and
> 2 x 8mb in bank 1) which I'm using with the original disks.  The machine
> runs fine, but the OS only recognises 64 mb of ram! ;(
> 
> I've got 2.1.5 on CD and am tempted to start again with this release.
> If I do this will I get the whole 82mb of ram available?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Joe.

  #1.  2.1.5R is recommended.  2.1.0R is no longer recommended now that
2.1.5 is released.

  #2  You need to build a kernel to detect more than 64MB of RAM, because
the BIOS is unable to report RAM sizes larger than that.  See MAXMEM in
LINT.


Tom