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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news.u.washington.edu!spleen.apl.washington.edu!user From: kargl@apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: 16 Meg limit in 386BSD/FreeBSD Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:41:21 -0700 Organization: Applied Physics Lab/University of Washington Lines: 23 Message-ID: <kargl-2405951041210001@spleen.apl.washington.edu> References: <3pupii$22p@dashi.us.dell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nntp1.u.washington.edu In article <3pupii$22p@dashi.us.dell.com>, pepper@dashi.us.dell.com (Ron Pepper) wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently come across an old problem with FreeBSD. It only > access 16 Megs on a EISA system that has 64 Megs. I remember there being a > declaration in the config files for the kernel that you could change to fix > this problem when you recompiled the kernel. Could someone refresh my > memory for me ;) > If it is a (true) EISA machine, you don't need bounce buffers. You should have access to all your memory. If you have a broken motherboard, then add OPTIONS BOUNCE_BUFFERS (look in LINT) in your kernel config file. BTW, this newsgroup will be going away soon. Try comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc -- Steven G. Kargl Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington Seattle, WA 98105