From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jun 12 13:15:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA28489 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA28473; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA07393; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:18:12 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:18:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: jko@vivid.autometric.com cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BIOS poke for memsize(2) on SuperMicro P6DOF? In-Reply-To: <9606121005.ZM27898@khan.autometric.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, John Ko wrote: > > I have a SuperMicro P6DOF which is installed with 128MB. > Under DOS 6.2, Linux 1.3.x, and FreeBSD 2.1, the OS's report > only 64MB. Under Windows 95, it reads 128MB. What's going on? You're running Ramdoubler? Win95 may be factoring in swap. > When I go down to the DOS prompt from Win95, and do "mem" it > reports 128MB, but under normal DOS boot or for that matter > any other Unix OS's, the memory size report is only 64MB. I'd believe those over Win95. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major