16 Meg limit in 386BSD/FreeBSD

[Ron Pepper]

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 ;)

Thanks in advance,

Ron.
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[Steven G. Kargl]

In article <3pupii$2...@dashi.us.dell.com>, pep...@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

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Steven G. Kargl
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