Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:37:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Anthony Rubin <arubin@concentric.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asus K7V with Crucial PC133 ECC RAM Message-ID: <20000712123704.E30262@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200007120100.SAA00561@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <002501bfeb9a$36bbc6f0$b8850140@r2d2> <200007120100.SAA00561@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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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
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