Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:28:27 -0500 From: "Anthony Rubin" <arubin@concentric.net> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Asus K7V with Crucial PC133 ECC RAM Message-ID: <006501bfebb1$3ea5df60$b8850140@r2d2> References: <002501bfeb9a$36bbc6f0$b8850140@r2d2> <200007120100.SAA00561@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20000712123704.E30262@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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" <grog@lemis.com> To: "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Anthony Rubin" <arubin@concentric.net>; <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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