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From: User Rdkeys <rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Are there any memory limits on older 386/486 motherboards with FreeBSD???
Date: 18 Jul 1997 14:58:36 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
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Except for my toy home box, I now have a fleet of fine FreeBSD boxes up in
my office.  Kudos to the FreeBSD folks.  I have run many lowendian flavors
of PC-ish *nix and must say that FreeBSD is the best of the lot in my hands.

Anyway, off to a particular fine point......

I have the chance to put 4 meg simms in my motherboards (486-33/66mhz boards).
That will give me 32 megs in each rather than the current 8 megs of 1 meg
simms in each.

My question is --- are there any 16mb or other such memory limits in the
current versions of FreeBSD?  I was not thinking that there was, but do
remember some versions of other *nices having problems at the 16mb barrier
on some motherboards.  My boards are GA-486VT Taiwan clone shop boards
that the books on them say will take 256K/1meg/4meg simms.  With 8 slots
and 4 meg simms that would give me a comfy 32mb of ram to work with.
I would not want to load up 32mb and only be able to use 16mb.

Any comments/pointers/suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

Bob Keys
rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu  (a fine little FreeBSD box!).