From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 11 20:23:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756CE37BB6D; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:23:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arubin@concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi.concentric.net [206.173.118.71]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id XAA29586; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:23:33 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from r2d2 (w184.z064001133.chi-il.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.133.184]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id XAA12522; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:23:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <006501bfebb1$3ea5df60$b8850140@r2d2> From: "Anthony Rubin" To: "Greg Lehey" , "Mike Smith" Cc: References: <002501bfeb9a$36bbc6f0$b8850140@r2d2> <200007120100.SAA00561@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20000712123704.E30262@wantadilla.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Asus K7V with Crucial PC133 ECC RAM Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:28:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just realized there is an error in my original post. The system reports 262144K with 256MB installed. This means FreeBSD always reports 80K less. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Lehey" To: "Mike Smith" Cc: "Anthony Rubin" ; Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:07 PM Subject: Re: Asus K7V with Crucial PC133 ECC RAM > On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 18:00:55 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > >> I recently put together a system that uses the Asus K7V motherboard with > >> Crucial PC133 ECC RAM. I bought 2 128MB DIMMs. The BIOS is seeing the RAM > >> correctly as 264144K, but FreeBSD has 262064K listed under real memory. I > >> thought this was odd and wanted to make sure one of the DIMMs wasn't bad so > >> I removed both and then tried one at a time. No matter which DIMM I use and > >> which slot I put it in the BIOS sees 131072K and FreeBSD sees 130992K. The > >> only other thing that is strange about this setup is that the K7V BIOS > >> currently has a known problem when you enable ECC so ECC is currently > >> disabled on my board. Below is the portion of dmesg I am referring to. > >> > >>> dmesg | grep memory > >> real memory = 268353536 (262064K bytes) > >> avail memory = 256950272 (250928K bytes) > > > > There's nothing wrong with your RAM - some of it is being used by the > > kernel. > > I think he's referring to the 80 kB that don't show up in real > memory. I'd assume that's the BIOS. > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message