Subject: Re: IPC memory banks
To: Yubyub bird <jonl@yubyub.net>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/15/2000 12:37:18
cool.  That worked.  Looks like the previous owner had the 4Mb ones in
bank 1.  Putting them in bank 0 fixed my problems.

Thanks
-Dan


On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Yubyub bird wrote:

> mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu said on 2000-04-15:
> 
> > I have a sparc IPC.  It has 3 memory banks (0,1,2) of 4 simms each.  I
> > have 2 banks of 1MB simms and 1 of 4MB simms.  Right now I can't boot from
> > the 1.4.2 syboot.fs I think because of the memory mapping problem.  Does
> > anyone know if there is a particular combination of how I install this
> > memory which can work around it?
> 
> Off the top of my head, make sure the 4MB simms are placed before the
> 1MB simms.  That's the only problem I've ever run into with an IPC
> regarding memory.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> -yubyub
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