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- From: alan@ernest.dseg.ti.com (Alan Edmonds)
- Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. - Plano, Tx
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:48:02 GMT
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- In article <2601@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
- >ed@maxed (Ed Whittemore) writes:
- >
- >>Simon Langley (slangley@constant.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >>: I have a 486 (ISA) with 20MB installed running ESIX 4.0.3. When I boot,
- >>: the machine recognises the full 20MB but ESIX only seems to recognise 16MB.
- >>:
- >>: Does anyone know how to set things up to recognise all the memory?
- >
- >>THis is a complicated issue, but the answer is you don't.
- >
- >Oh my, I'm having the same problems with a 486 (ISA) with 24 MB
- >installed running ISC 3.0. The ROM BIOS, Manifest, etc. recognize
- >the full 24 MB but ISC only recognizes 16 MB.
- >
- >I see options under konfig:memory size for up to 64 MB but according
- >to the documentation this only affects the size of various buffers,
- >etc. and all available memory is used.
- >
- >I would like to understand the complications: can you/somebody supply
- >details?
-
- Do you have a SCSI Bus Master host adapter? If yes, that's your problem.
- The ISA bus can only do DMA into a 16MB address space. That's your
- limit. I *think* that if you don't have a bus master card, you
- can use > 16 MB on an ISA bus system. This is one reason to pay
- the extra bucks for a EISA bus system with EISA hard disk controller.
-
- This problem can be solved by DMAing into a temporary buffer in the
- lower 16MB range then transfering the data into the final destination
- buffer. I think that some vendors offer this option; it might
- have to be enabled and a new kernel rebuilt. I don't think ISC
- uses the intermediate buffer option (at least up to 2.2.1), SCO
- I think supports using the intermediate buffer.
- --
- Alan Edmonds Texas Instruments, Inc.
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