There are 386-boards (I have three I think) that have 16 banks. Try
one of those maybe then if 8MB is not enough? The 4MB simms are not
that cheap, and in my experience many boards won't eat them.

Marc

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Steven Grunza wrote:

> 8MB won't do it.  You'll need at least a pair of 4MB x 9's (4 + 4 + 1 +
> 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1) = 14MB.  The only nice thing about the 'SX family is
> that you can get away with using pairs of SIMMs instead of groups of 4.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
> > Behalf Of Marc Schneiders
> > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 3:15 PM
> > To: Brian Stark
> > Cc: Mike Cheponis; Brian Stark; port-i386@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: old 386sx & NetBSD 1.4.1
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Brian Stark wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> > >
> > > > > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Brian Stark wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I would suggest you try to put another 4Mb of ram in
> > there ......
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > [cuts]
> >
> > > I agree it is not worth messing around with too much... I
> > don't even want
> > > to spend a dime to put extra memory in the old system.
> >
> > It could not cost much more than a few dimes :-) If there is space for
> > four extra 1 MB simms, why not try it? People send them to me for
> > free, really.
> >
> > [cuts]
> >
> >
> > Marc
> >
> >
> > Marc Schneiders                 ||	In re tam justa
> >                                 ||	nulla est deliberatio!
> > marc@venster.nl                 ||
> > marc@oldserver.demon.nl         ||	Acta SS. MM. Scillitanorum
> >
> 
> 

Marc Schneiders                 ||	In re tam justa
                                ||	nulla est deliberatio!
marc@venster.nl                 ||  
marc@oldserver.demon.nl         ||	Acta SS. MM. Scillitanorum