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- From: fuhrman@hpavla.lf.hp.com (Phil Fuhrman)
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:50:43 GMT
- Subject: Re: Memory chip problems
- Message-ID: <17480004@hpavla.lf.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Little Falls Site
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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- References: <1992Nov15.041549.154@weyrich.UUCP>
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- >this time the bios found all 16 MB of memory, and UNIX started to
- >boot. I got the normal message from FAS telling me that it had initialized,
- >and then about the time I would expect to see a message about my RAM disk
- >being set up and how much available memory UNIX had, I instead got the
- >message
- >
- > "Could not allocate memory for default 0 buuffers"
- >
- >over and over again. I shut down and tried again -- same result.
- >Re-installing my old SIMMs allowed UNIX to boot normally.
- >
- >****** COULD THIS BE A SOFTWARE PROBLEM WITH MY UNIX? *******
- >[I have never run the UNIX with more than 8 MB RAM -- this is an
- >old version -- is it possible that it is unable to handle this much
- >RAM? -- I would ask Microport, except they don't want to talk to me
- >about release 3.0 -- they want me to buy 3.2 or 4.0. Instead I am in the
- >process of replacing Microport with OS/2].
-
- This is really digging back for me, but, yes there was a problem with
- the Microport 3.0 kernel for >8 Mb. Had to do with the 'automatic'
- calculation of how many disk buffers to allocate as a function of
- main memory size. Calculation blew up for >8 Mb. There was a adb
- kernel patch but it's long since aged from my system.
-
- Phil Fuhrman - Little Falls Site
- Hewlett-Packard Co.
-