From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 4 21:24:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA13073 for current-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 21:24:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from mail.uniserve.com (dns1-van.uniserve.com [204.244.163.48] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA13063 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 21:24:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252] by mail.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 0xSxx8-0002Cq-00; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 21:24:30 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 21:24:23 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Kingson Gunawan cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory out of range??? In-Reply-To: <345FC6CF.73D2D1A4@excite.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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