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- From: Ellen Joyner
- Subject: Re: IIci System 7 Software Takes Up 13,279K!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.165051.2166@nrtpa038.bnr.ca>
- Sender: cadnews@nrtpa038.bnr.ca (netnews posting host)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research
- References: <1993Jan20.012356.3386@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 16:50:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.012356.3386@netcom.com> lui@netcom.com (Stephen Lui)
- writes:
- >I have a Mac IIci with a Raster Ops 8XL video card. I selected "About this
- >Macintosh" under the Apple menu and the IIci had 20,480K total memory, a
- >Largest Unused Block of 7,7175K, and the System Software took 13,729K!
- >I erased the hard disk, reset the PRAM, and boot the system off of System 7
- >Disk Tools and got the same results!
- >
- >System 7 really takes up 13,729K because I can't use any more than 7,715K
- >for applications. I also get the same results running System 7 from the
- >hard disk. I reseated the cards, took out memory (the IIci has 4x1MB in
- >bank A and 4x4MB in bank B), but no luck!
- >
- >Anyone have any ideas what's wrong? Oh yeah, I also formatted the Hard Disk
- >with FWB HD ToolKit PE and now I can't initialize the disk w/ Apple HD Setup.
- >
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- Turn 32bit addressing on in your control panel!
- An easy solution compared to what you tried.
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