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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!hippo.ru.ac.za!Braae!g89r4222 From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: AHA1542 hanging with FreeBSD 1.1beta Message-ID: <CoG096.G2H@hippo.ru.ac.za> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <Co3MBA.s3@pegasus.com> <CoAsut.8K@pegasus.com> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 06:48:38 GMT Lines: 22 In <CoAsut.8K@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes: >I got a helpful email response explaining that this controller >allocates a buffer at the top of 16Megs which gets in the way if >you have 16Megs of RAM, and consequently causes lockups. >My systems has 16Megs. Telling the BIOS that you have 15Megs is >supposed to fix the problem. Problem is my BIOS (AMI) doesn't >seem to want to let me change that parameter. >What's the proper way to tell FreeBSD not to use the last meg? I'm not sure, but this problem may be fixed in 1.1GAMMA. (I am running a 1542CF on a machine running -current, and have not had any lockups.) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, | ____ _ o /\ Rhodes University, South Africa |___ _-\_<, / /\/\ email : csgr@cs.ru.ac.za | (*)/'(*) /\/ / \ \ : geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za |