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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.171621.26639@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 17:16:21 GMT
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- In article <BuAIIo.EE6@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
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- | I *have* applied the 403001 patch from Esix, but I don't think that's
- | required to get it to recognize all the memory -- you just need it if
- | you have a bus mastering hard disk controller and >16MB of memory.
-
- It's not as simple as that. On some versions of UNIX the floppy uses
- DMA while the hard disk uses CPU. due to the low speed of the DMA
- interface. A buffered HD controller could use DMA, but most don't.
-
- In any case, the DMA controller has the same limitation on memory
- size, plus a few others about address wrap and page boundaries which are
- getting mercifully dim in my memory. The bottom line is that some
- versions of UNIX will have trouble with the floppy but not the hard if
- you go >16MB.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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