On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, emanuel stiebler wrote:

> > Anyway, I recently bought a 32MB Kingston memory board on eBay, and
> > attempted to install it.  The hardware seemed to be recognized just
> > fine by the firmware, but I started getting panics during the OS load.
> > I don't believe that the fault is a defective card, because if I
> > install ONLY the Kingston card, the system runs just like normal.  It's
> > only when I try to mix the Kingston with one of the original 8MB cards
> > that I get the problem.
> 
> UPS ! Be carefull. I remember that we couldn't mix modules with different
> sizes on NetBSD/pmax, but probably this is fixed already ?

  Mixing memory module sizes is not currently supported.  If a 32MB module
is present, each memory slot occupies 32MB, and the 8MB modules will
appear 4 times in the address space of each slot.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA