Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 21:24:23 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Kingson Gunawan <kingson@excite.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory out of range??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971104212044.5702C-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <345FC6CF.73D2D1A4@excite.com>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Kingson Gunawan wrote: > I have the following setup/config: > Tyan m/b Tahoe series Dual P-II/266 with 1GB memory (yes, 1024MB of > RAM). > DPT smartraid-4 (UW), Adaptec 2940UW > Matshita CD-ROM (SCSI) > 8 IBM UW SCSI 4.1GB drives (7 configured as raid attached to DPT, the > rest attached to the Adaptec). > > I made the boot floppy from the image in the > current.freebsd.org:/pub/3.0-971101-SNAP/floppies. > I know this boot floppy will not recognize the DPT controller. However, > the boot floppy crashed with: > "bounced memory: out of range" (or something like that) > right after the install config screen. > > Any idea? Hopefully, this is the archive, but it probably isn't up to date yet... Bounce buffers (for ISA devices that require DMA: aha, and some ethernets) don't work on large memory configurations. Simple solution is to make a boot floppy without bounce buffers, because chances are no one is going to be using old ISA junk on such systems. Long term solution is to fix bounce buffers. Tom
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