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- From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
- Message-ID: <2695@aegis.or.jp>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 23:42:03 GMT
- References: <BuILEt.1MG@virtech.uucp> <1992Sep13.105315.15555@husc3.harvard.edu> <2669@aegis.or.jp> <1992Sep14.201817.15594@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan
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- maziere1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mazieres) writes:
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- >In article <2669@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
- >>maziere1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mazieres) writes:
- >>
- >>>The man page says of the 0/1 flag:
- >>> "0 indicates no special properties and 1 indicates memory for which
- >>> DMA is not allowed."
- >>
- >>If you would, what man page for what system? I don't see this of ISC 3.2.
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- >OK sorry, I sort of cheated. Actually that was the SVR4 man page. However,
- >I used to use a DELL SVR3.2 that said the same thing. In fact, as I recall,
- >the boot file had 16M-64M:1 by default. I wondered what that meant and read
- >the man page to find out, which is how I knew what it meant even before I
- >went looking for an appropriate quote from the SVR4 man page.
-
- Thanks for the update.
-
- >Here's another interesting point, though. The Consensys V4 default is
- >...1M-15M:0,16M-15M:1. Is there some reason for disabling DMA in the last
- >megabyte?
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- If anyone has a way to use 24MB with ISC R3.2 V3.0 I'd sure like
- to know about it...
-
- Dave
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- Dave McLane
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