From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 20 11:47:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14292 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:47:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles359.castles.com [208.214.167.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14217 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07584; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809201852.LAA07584@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Joe Gleason" cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: over 512 megs memory problems... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:30:44 EDT." <004101bde4ab$bf17a3e0$f10408d1@bug.tasam.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:52:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > That makes sense, do you know of a motherboard that can cache more than > 512mb? > > I just looked in my motherboard manual and it says that it is the L2 cache > on the processor that does the caching so the board has none. So should I > look for a board that has it's own L2 cache as well? It would have helped a *lot* if you had identified your processor/ chipset combination in your original post. I don't quite understand whether you expect us to magically read your mind or to work out where you're posting from, travel there, break in and examine your hardware for you while you sleep. With the miniscule crumbs of information that you've let slip so far, it seems that you're using a Pentium II of the < 350MHz variety, and yes, the 512MB cache limitation is a feature of the processor. > We will be replacing that board anyways because it was doing other > annoying things. Smoking in bed? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message