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From: gahull@ccs.neu.edu (Gregory Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sees only 16 meg
Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:23:59 GMT
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Steven Koch (skoch@MCS.COM) wrote:
: I have a Compaq Deskpro 4/33M (EISA bus) with 24 megs of RAM.
: FreeBSD only sees 16 megs of RAM. Any ideas?
In the FreeBSD handbook, in the section refering to configuring your kernel
the following text can be found:
options BOUNCE_BUFFERS
ISA devices and EISA devices operating in an ISA compatibility
mode can only perform DMA (Direct Memory Access) to memory
below 16 megabytes. This option enables such devices to work in
systems with more than 16 megabytes of memory.
Make sure that option is in your kernel configuration file.
--
G.
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