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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: AHA1542 hanging with FreeBSD 1.1beta
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <Co3MBA.s3@pegasus.com> <CoAsut.8K@pegasus.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 06:48:38 GMT
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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.
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