On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:02:04 -0600  "Michael L. Hitch" wrote:

> On Jul 20, 12:24pm, "emanuel stiebler" wrote:
> > I would never mix memory like this. At least i would check if you can boot
> > with the one 32 MByte module. (is enough anyway). Then if you really want
> > to use all memory you have, try 32,8,8,8,8,8....
> 
>   I'm very certain that last configuration will not currently work on
> NetBSD.  If the memory decoding is done the same way as the 5000/200, the
> 8M modules will all be multiply-decoded in each 32M slot.  NetBSD is not
> smart enough to detect this and size the memory accordingly.  [I have
> verified this behavious on a 5000/200, but did not get a chance to test it
> on a 5000/260 I had for a short while.]

8MB modules do work (well they did a year or so ago).  My first
NetBSD/pmax machine was a 5000/240 which had 6x 8MB for ages before
I found a few spare 32MB modules.

At a guess, I'd expect the 32,8,8,8... configuration to show up as
a 40MB machine, but I can't test this at the moment.

Simon.