At 06:42 PM 3/10/2001 -0600, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I just turned on my VAX today and noticed that as it was testing my RAM,
>it really slowed down at the last two blocks.  "show mem" at the
>bootloader gives me:
>
> >>> SHOW MEM
>
>         MEM_TOP = 00800000
>         MEM_BOT = 00000000
>
>           MEM_NOT_AVAIL
>         -----------------
>         007C3400:007FFFFF
>
>Is this indicating faulty RAM?  This is somewhat puzzling for me as, IIRC,
>I only have onboard RAM.  The "show config" says this about my RAM:

No.  That is the ram used by the console.

>DEVNBR   DEVNAM          INFO
>------   --------   -------------------------
>      5        MEM   ?? 001 0072
>                     8MB = SY=8MB, S0/1=0MB, S2/3=0MB, S4/5=0MB
>
>I know nothing about VAX hardware - does the SY mean that it's onboard?

SY?  Yes.
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