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From: Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@collie.net>
To: <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 08:17
Subject: Memory problems on 5000/200


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> Hello from a lurker ...
>
> I've got a 5000/200 currently running NetBSD 1.3.3.  The box has 32MB
> of memory, and is configured with 128MB of swap space.  All was well,
> except for an occasional SCSI driver error message, which didn't seem
> to affect anything.
>
> 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 ?


> Any suggestions?  I was going to try upgrading to v1.4, but I've got
> people actually using this box for web and mail services, so I'm loath
> to risk too much.  However, if it's likely that this will resolve the
> problem, then I'll go for it.

Check the archives, if this is fixed, or wait until the answer pops up ;-)

cheers,
emanuel