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From: cogswell@tibbit.cs.uoregon.edu (Bryce Cogswell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-current now supports DMA bounce-buffers
Date: 29 Mar 1994 23:05:53 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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In-reply-to: aflundi@sandia.gov's message of Tue, 29 Mar 1994 13:53:44 GMT

aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) writes:

>   I've seen reference to 32MB come up quite a bit,
>   but I haven't seen discussion of say 48MB or
>   64MB.  Is this just because 32MB motherboards are
>   common, or is there a fundamental limitation of
>   some sort to 32MB?

I have a 72MB system that runs great, except for the fact that only
64MB are recognized by FreeBSD.  Under DOW I have 72, but the first
8MB are ignored by FreeBSD.

I know this is an unusual configuration, but does anyone know of a 
way to get the extra 8 recognized?

-- Bryce