Subject: Re: Can netbsd/pmax use discontiguous memory?
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Greg Ingram <ingram@symsys.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/24/2001 10:45:38
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Toru Nishimura wrote:

> > Rats!  Well, how hard would it be to instruct the kernel not to use the
> > memory in the second slot?  It *seems* like it shouldn't be too difficult
> > and I might then be able to use 32 of my 40 megs.  This sounds like a
> > generic NetBSD question and not just a port-pmax issue.  I may look for a
> > different list to pester.
> 
> No, in this specific case it's totally DECstation issue.  And why don't
> you repopulate SIMM?  It seems easier rather laud boo over the world.

My current suspicion is that the slot itself is my problem.  I tried
serveral SIMMs in slot #2 and they all failed.  I tried the original SIMM
in slot #1 and it acted ok.

- Greg