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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:01:19 -0500
From:      "Matthew A. Kolb" <muk@bender.cl.msu.edu>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Memory probe finds only 64Mb Dell 2300
Message-ID:  <19991117090119.A44760@bender.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3832AE0E.7331B5F0@tpgi.com.au>; from eirvine@tpgi.com.au on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 12:30:54AM %2B1100
References:  <3832AE0E.7331B5F0@tpgi.com.au>

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Yep.
we have 50+ of the 2300's and had to set MAXMEM on all of them. (the 64mb to 256mb jump was nice...hehehe)
Apparently, the bios isn't passing the memory information properly on startup.
./kolb

On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 12:30:54AM +1100, eirvine wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Earlier last week I took delivery of a Dell 2300 with
> 128 Mb of RAM. Both the 3.3 Release Generic kernel
> and a fresh 3.3 stable kernel failed to probe the RAM
> correctly, and only found 64 Mb.
>  
> A new kernel with MAXMEM set to 128*1024 found all the RAM
> and seems to be going fine. 
>  
> I thought this was no longer expected behaviour. Should I
> collect full details (BIOS version, dmesg, motherboard) and
> submit a full report? Or is this just normal?
>  
> Eddie.
> 
> 
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