Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 23:29:10 -0800 From: Kingson Gunawan <kingson@geocities.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory out of range??? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19691231160000.007d8140@mailhost.atext.com>
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At 01:26 PM 11/5/97 +1030, Mike Smith 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). > >Hmm, nice configuration. I am presuming you'll be looking at the DPT >driver soon? Yes, I've discussed this with Simon. The reason I of booting with a 'regular' boot floppy is to verify the very same result I got with the boot floppy containing the dpt driver. It sure is a really heavy duty config, however, looks like I should not put memory >512MB (due to caching issue???) > >> 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? > >Yup. You have too much memory for the "BOUNCE_BUFFERS" option, which >is part of the boot floppy's configuration (in order to support >slightly lower-end systems 8). If you can temporarily remove most of >your memory until after you've installed and built a new kernel, >you'll be fine. I'll try your suggestion. Hopefully, I have a better luck tomorrow... :-) > >mike > > >
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