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- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
- Message-ID: <2AB008AB.42F2@telly.on.ca>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 02:47:06 GMT
- References: <Bu9E9r.H7z@maxed.amg.com>
- <BuAIIo.EE6@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Sep9.171621.26639@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1992Sep9.171621.26639@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <BuAIIo.EE6@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
-
- >| 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.
-
- This does not require a patch for ESIX 4.0.4.
-
- Has anyone considered the possibility that the UNIX is *capable* of
- addressing the memory above 16MB, it just hasn't been told to look for
- it?
-
- There's a file /etc/default/boot that contains a MEMRANGE definition of
- where to look for usable RAM. I believe the default file as shipped
- is set for 16MB. I had a system with 24MB, whose UNIX recognized all of
- it once I set this entry higher and rebooted.
-
- > 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.
-
- This is the case at one installation I know of, where an ALR will panic
- roughly every third time the floppy disk is accessed. Is this fixable by
- the UNIX vendor or is it hardware?
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
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