Subject: Re: Why does my machine crash?
To: Tobias Weingartner <weingart@austin.BrandonU.CA>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.AU>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/29/1994 11:06:43
According to Tobias Weingartner:
>
>In message <9411270926.AA29412@bunya.awadi>, Brett Lymn writes:
>> 
>> Anyway, I remembered somone posting on the usenet news
>> that there was some memory clash between the adaptec card and memory
>> in the region > 15Meg.  On this basis I removed 4Meg from my machine
>> (the minimum I could remove) to make my memory 12Meg.  Now things
>> work!
>
>Can anyone shed some light on this?
>

A couple of people have suggested that I need to turn off mapping the
memory  at 640K/1Meg into upper memory.  I know my board does this
(and is at the moment).  I remember having to turn this off to get
386BSD 0.1 to boot at all on my system but turned it back on later as
this had been fixed and besides which I got memory errors during the
bios memory check which I assume are because the bios is too dumb to
allow for the case when the memory is not mapped.  I will have a play
on the weekend - after backing the system up and report back.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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