From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 17 14:54: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE2815024 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:54:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA04940; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:53:06 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.18) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma004928; Thu, 18 Nov 99 09:53:03 +1100 Received: from localhost (carl@localhost) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA36150; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:53:01 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: newton.aipo.gov.au: carl owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:53:01 +1100 (EST) From: Carl Makin X-Sender: carl@newton.aipo.gov.au To: Adam Szilveszter Cc: eirvine , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory probe finds only 64Mb Dell 2300 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Adam Szilveszter wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, eirvine wrote: > > > 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. > As fas as I know, this is, hm, not normal but usual behavior:-) Current > BIOS-es still have problems with passing the correct memory size to the We have Dell 2300, 4300 and 6300's and all need MAXMEM to detect the RAM. Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message