Linux-Hardware Digest #870, Volume #14 Tue, 5 Jun 01 19:13:09 EDT
Contents:
HELP Looking for this board ("Howard D. Brenner")
Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address? (Mark Lloyd)
Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address?
Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address? ("stan")
Re: Dlink DFE-530tx reboot problem (Toby Haynes)
Re: Why is my IBM DTLA hard disk so slow? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Plz tell me this is not a hardware bug. (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Back up in Linux (Norman Levin)
System clock stops with APM suspend (Binoj Ramesh)
HOW-to program for IEEE 1394 (Andrey Vlassov)
Re: VIA KT133 686B Chipset (Albert)
TRUST Video Movie Editor (Zoran ZR35050) - Linux driver? (root)
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Back up in Linux ("Interconnect")
MODEM PCTel HSP56 AMR on PCCHIPS M810 (Hildebrando Rosa Jr.)
Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address? ("Barry L. Kline")
Re: Mandrake 8.0 /mnt/cdrom padlocked (Scott R.)
can't get into BIOS on Compaq Prolinea 575 (Linus Rees)
Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address? ("kyi")
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From: "Howard D. Brenner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,de.comp.hardware.misc
Subject: HELP Looking for this board
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:41:24 -0400
We are in need of a device that comes close to the specs below, if not
exact. The only absolute requirments is: Sychronous and with a RS-422
connector.
A. Data Signals: Send Data (SD), Receive Data (RD)
B. Data Rates: 122 bps to 5.1 Mbps
C. Format: Digital, Serial Binary, NRZ, 50%+/- 10% duty
cycle
D. Interface Spec: TIA/EIA-422-B for 5.1 Mbps
E. Timing Signals: Terminal Timing In (TT), Receive Timing Out
(RT)
F. Frequency: 122 Hz to 5.1 MHz
Thanks
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From: Mark Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address?
Date: 5 Jun 2001 14:42:05 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hi,
>
> I have a 586 processor and motherboard. I previously had 32MB and
> recently added another 64MB RAM but my machine only sees 64MB. I'm
> pretty sure the memory cards are inserted properly.
>
> Could it be my processor can only address 64MB?
>
> Thanks
> Rajesh
>
The CPU can address 4GB. That limit applies to the 386DX, 486, and all
Pentiums. The motherboard may have a limit.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://148.75.72.214
http://go.to/notstupid
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address?
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 19:47:20 GMT
On 5 Jun 2001 14:42:05 -0500, Mark Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a 586 processor and motherboard. I previously had 32MB and
>> recently added another 64MB RAM but my machine only sees 64MB. I'm
>> pretty sure the memory cards are inserted properly.
>>
>> Could it be my processor can only address 64MB?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rajesh
>>
>
>The CPU can address 4GB. That limit applies to the 386DX, 486, and all
>Pentiums. The motherboard may have a limit.
The p-pro can address 16GB and I believe the PII and PIII can as well.
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From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address?
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:55:10 -0400
I was playing with memory this weekend. Here is what I ran into:
Make sure the memory is seated in the slot.
I have an older Pent 233 430tx motherboard.
The config was: Bank 0 EDO Part 1 (had a 32meg stick in it)
Bank 0 EDO Part 2 ( had a 32 meg stick in it)
Bank 1 EDO Part1 (empty)
Bank 1 EDO Part 2 (empty)
Bank 0 DIMM empty
Bank 1 DIMM ( had a 32 meg stick in it)
The edo had to be in pairs. And I can only have 2 banks occupied.
I thought I could add another 32 meg to the Bank 0 DIMM but the edo
was ignored because I already had a bank 0 filled with the new 32 meg dimm.
Instead of 128 I ended up with 64 meg.
Your motherboard may vary.
Brgds, Stan
"Rajesh Radhakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a 586 processor and motherboard. I previously had 32MB and
> recently added another 64MB RAM but my machine only sees 64MB. I'm
> pretty sure the memory cards are inserted properly.
>
> Could it be my processor can only address 64MB?
>
> Thanks
> Rajesh
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dlink DFE-530tx reboot problem
Date: 05 Jun 2001 15:56:53 -0400
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have got a problem with DFE-530tx dlink eth. card.
> The card does not set up hardware nr( & does not work) when I tryed to
> boot linux after w98 boot. To start properlly I have to switch off
> power supply ( I don't know how to switch off "wake on LAN"
> on this card).
You can probably disable this in the BIOS on your machine - I have this
ethernet card and it gives me no trouble switching between Win98SE and
Linux. Not that that happens often these days - even the lure of Black&White
doesn't tempt me to reboot more than once every fortnight...
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Why is my IBM DTLA hard disk so slow?
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:55:15 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>I'll believe you on that.
Great ;-)
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Plz tell me this is not a hardware bug.
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:55:58 GMT
"Kilian A. Foth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>> - stop XFree and see whether the system runs stable in console
>> mode only
>I have tried that, and it does run stable. What does that tell me?
It may be a problem with the graphics card and driver used,
or a general setup error, which is only revealed by making
actual use of the graphics card (e.g., a shared IRQ in between
the AGP slot and the first PCI slot). In text mode, there's no
IRQ usage on the video card at all.
Check your distribution's website for possible updates,
or simply stay with the console mode, that's more useful anyways.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:25:26 +0200
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.advocacy,,comp.windows.x.kde,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Back up in Linux
I was about to respond to this append, when I saw my "groups" in Netscape
messenger spin like a busted roulette machine. SIX groups? Give it a break.
If all 6 of these groups are proper groups for this question, then there
are clearly 5 groups to many.
Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> "Johan Kullstam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > Jerry Wong wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I used to backup the windows by Ghost software. In linux, can the
> command "tar"
> > > > be used like Ghost. I means to backup the whole Linux system by tar it
> and
> > > > restore it when necessary. I have windows98 and two Linux system in my
> PC
> > > > (Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 8.0), so I can tar one of them when running
> the other.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible? Please give me some advice.
> > >
> > > tar is okay for groups of files, but NOT good for the entire system.
> > >
> > > learn to use dump, and/or BRU or Arkeia.
> >
> > dump is not a sufficient solution either. linus had a few comments
> > about this on linux-kernel about a month ago. it seems that the only
> > way to get a clean snapshot of the disk partition is to unmount it
> > first and then save. this is especially true of the journalling
> > filesystems.
>
> Tar is actually better than dump at dealing with an active filesystem
> but neither will handle the case where multiple files must be saved
> as a snapshot of a consistent state. What we need is kernel support
> to freeze the 'real' filesystem while letting the system continue to work
> with changes staying in the buffers or paging out to swap if necessary - and
> of course, a way for the backup utility to read the frozen copy.
>
> Les Mikesell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Norman Levin
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From: Binoj Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System clock stops with APM suspend
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:43:14 -0400
Whenever I use apm -s to put the computer on suspend mode the system
clock stops.
Also whenever I reboot the system clock seems to be slowed by 4 hrs. I
have set the timezone etc correctly and cannot figure out why this is
happening .
Binoj
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From: Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HOW-to program for IEEE 1394
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 20:45:45 GMT
Hi Penguins,
I am looking for documentation how to program IEEE 1394. In particular I am
interested in protocol for Firewire harddrives or something like ZIP or Jazz drives.
I need information about protocol
which thay talk. I would like to write software which would use hot plugable HDD on
Linux and possibility use laptops as hotplugable HDD on different OS. Idea is that
laptop will emulate standard
firewire disk and on client mashine you do not need install any software, as many OS
has build in support for firewire disks. I have checked sourceforge but did not find
any link for firewire data
exchange protocol for HDD or ZIP/JAZZ drives. I know that there is a few drives around
but yesterday I spent whole evening crawling internet in reseach and could not find
anything usable. I found
specification for Digital video cameras but not information about IEEE HDD protocol
specification. All what I found was that Microsoft has support for IEEE 1394 in
Windows XP and with BIOS support it
will possible boot from firewire disks.
If anybody has any information which could be usefull please post it in this
newsgroup. I beleive that many programmers will be interested in this information.
Thank you,
Andrey
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From: Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA KT133 686B Chipset
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:10:42 +0200
Kenneth R�rvik wrote:
> The kernel is telling you that UDMA modes 3-5 are disabled (to avoid
> filesystem corruption). I think a workaround was implemented in 2.4.3 or
> 2.4.4. I'd recommend upgrading the kernel to 2.4.5.
>
OK. But should I compile the new kernel 2.4.5 with setting ATA(2) section??
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: TRUST Video Movie Editor (Zoran ZR35050) - Linux driver?
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:12:06 +0100
Hi,
About three years ago I got a TRUST "Video Movie Editor" as a
birthday present. It's given me good service under Windows 95 and 98,
but now I want to use it under Linux (Mandrake 7.1). Is there a driver
available for this thing or do I have to butcher the Win9x driver by
hand? Will the Win9x driver work under WINE?
The board has the following ICs on it:
1x Philips SAA7110AWP (video decoder/frontend)
1x Philips SAA7187AWP (video encoder/backend)
1x Zoran ZR35050PQC21 (MotionJPEG compression processor)
1x Zoran ZR35055PQC21 (MotionJPEG controller)
1x Samsung KM428C1285-7 (RAM? PnP ROM?)
Thanks in advance.
-l-
Phil.
http://www.philpem.f9.co.uk/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 21:22:30 GMT
"Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I mentioned I could not boot from Wind98 recover diskette,
>I meant the PC read the floppy for a few seconds, then turn to
>read the C drive (/dev/hda) over and over. I could see the disk
>access indicator lit on and off. The only way to get out was to
>do ctrl-alt-del :-) It happened the same way with Win98 CD.
>
>I reshuffled boot device sequence a few times (floppy/HD/CDROM)
>but to no avail.
>
>Please find herewith the fdisk diskplay of both drives. I would
>really appreciate some advice how to fix the problem.
>
>Rgds somphong
>Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2100 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hdb1 * 1 3 24066 83 Linux
>/dev/hdb2 4 2100 16844152+ 5 Extended
>/dev/hdb5 4 1023 8193118+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hdb6 1024 1661 5124703+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hdb7 1662 1820 1277136 83 Linux
>/dev/hdb8 1821 1886 530113+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hdb9 1887 1952 530113+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hdb10 1953 2018 530113+ 82 Linux swap
>/dev/hdb11 2019 2084 530113+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hdb12 2085 2100 128488+ 83 Linux
You have cyclic partition tables (as I told you one week ago).
Change the ID of the extended partition on disk 2 (hdb2) from 05 to 85
using Linux fdisk.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 21:28:30 GMT
"Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 2040 16386268+ b Win95 FAT32
Reply no. 2.
Well, there is one error more. The ID of the FAT32 partition on disk 1
(hda) must be 0C, not 0B, since the partition ends later than 1 based
cylinder 1024. If you leave it as 0B data loss will occur.
If more than about 8 GB of data has been written to the partition
damage may already have occurred.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: "Interconnect" <mark###@logichip.com.au>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.windows.x.kde,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Back up in Linux
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:14:49 +1000
Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I was about to respond to this append, when I saw my "groups" in Netscape
> messenger spin like a busted roulette machine. SIX groups? Give it a
break.
> If all 6 of these groups are proper groups for this question, then there
> are clearly 5 groups to many.
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> > "Johan Kullstam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > > Jerry Wong wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I used to backup the windows by Ghost software. In linux, can the
> > command "tar"
> > > > > be used like Ghost. I means to backup the whole Linux system by
tar it
> > and
> > > > > restore it when necessary. I have windows98 and two Linux system
in my
> > PC
> > > > > (Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 8.0), so I can tar one of them when
running
> > the other.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it possible? Please give me some advice.
> > > >
> > > > tar is okay for groups of files, but NOT good for the entire system.
> > > >
> > > > learn to use dump, and/or BRU or Arkeia.
> > >
> > > dump is not a sufficient solution either. linus had a few comments
> > > about this on linux-kernel about a month ago. it seems that the only
> > > way to get a clean snapshot of the disk partition is to unmount it
> > > first and then save. this is especially true of the journalling
> > > filesystems.
> >
> > Tar is actually better than dump at dealing with an active filesystem
> > but neither will handle the case where multiple files must be saved
> > as a snapshot of a consistent state. What we need is kernel support
> > to freeze the 'real' filesystem while letting the system continue to
work
> > with changes staying in the buffers or paging out to swap if necessary -
and
> > of course, a way for the backup utility to read the frozen copy.
> >
> > Les Mikesell
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Norman Levin
Yes Linux can easily back up your entire system. BASH plus tar plus cron =
problem solved. No need to get extra software.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hildebrando Rosa Jr.)
Subject: MODEM PCTel HSP56 AMR on PCCHIPS M810
Date: 5 Jun 2001 15:07:21 -0700
A don't get this device work on mdk with kernel 2.4.3
The modules available claim for unresolved symbols
Someone gets this device working on kernel 2.4.x?
Thanks for any help
[ ]'s
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From: "Barry L. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address?
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 18:10:20 -0400
Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a 586 processor and motherboard. I previously had 32MB and
> recently added another 64MB RAM but my machine only sees 64MB. I'm
> pretty sure the memory cards are inserted properly.
>
> Could it be my processor can only address 64MB?
>
> Thanks
> Rajesh
Did you try appending mem=95M at the LILO prompt when you boot
your machine?
Barry
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From: Scott R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 /mnt/cdrom padlocked
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:14:39 GMT
What are the permissions/ownership set to on /mnt/plexcdrom and
/mnt/kenwood?
sleepy wrote:
> Ok. Here's 64 dollar question. There is a permission problem with my
> cdroms. In Mandrake 8.0, the cdroms are supermounted (automount) for all
> practical purposes. I get little green icons telling me that they are
> mounted but I can't access them (GUI or command line). In the GUI file
> browser Konquerer there are locks on my cdrom(IDE Plexwriter) and
> cdrom2(IDE Kenwood 42x). They both worked great until I tried to do some
> scsi emulation b.s. (I just call it that because it's been problematic
> lately) . That didn't work and I restored my old fstab (to get rid of the
> scd0 device link. Since then I can't access them. Here's where it gets
> weird. I created new folders in /mnt called plexcdrom and kenwood and
> changed my fstab to reflect that. Upon reboot, the cdrom and cdrom2
> folders were unlocked, but as you could imagine due to fstab, my cdrom's
> were not there. They were linked to /mnt/plexcdrom and /mnt/kenwood.
> Yup,
> you guessed it, there were now locks on those. I am left to believe that
> the system does not realize I am root and is locking me out of those
> devices for some reason. If anyone can shed light on this I'll be your
> best friend for 2 or 3 days. I have thoroughly searched the newsgroups
> for
> an answer. Many people have this problem, but no fixes. Below is my
> fstab FYI
>
> fstab
>
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/plexcdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/kenwood supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat
> user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> /dev/hdb6 /mnt/extra ext2 defaults 1 2
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
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From: Linus Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't get into BIOS on Compaq Prolinea 575
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 23:22:48 +0100
I can't get into the BIOS to change the boot order of my box to boot
from my SuSE CD. F10 does not work (it should). F2 gives me a blue box
saying" F1 to boot". I appear to be locked out. I was given the box
after a company chucked them out. I can't see anything obvioius inside
that is disabling the bios.
Any suggestions out there. And yes I know I can still boot from my SuSE
floppy, but I'd ather not. I'm all ready doing that with the 486dx box
I've got, where I can get into the bios but can't select the CD in the
boot sequence.
Linus
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "kyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address?
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:55:00 -0700
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First off does the computer see the memory when it's booting, ie do
you see the memory durning the memory scan if so how much? If it does
see all of the ram but linux does not see it add the following line
to /etc/lilo.conf
append = "mem=95M"
then save & exit lilo.conf, then from a xterm or anycommand line for
that matter re-run lilo, type w/out quotes 'lilo'
then reboot. You should now see all of your ram unless your bois
didn't see it in the first place, like I mentioned above. If it is
the bios thats haveing a problem witht the memory then a bios flash
to the latest revision might fix it, might not.
- -Jayson
http://linux.microbsys.com
Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a 586 processor and motherboard. I previously had 32MB and
> recently added another 64MB RAM but my machine only sees 64MB. I'm
> pretty sure the memory cards are inserted properly.
>
> Could it be my processor can only address 64MB?
>
> Thanks
Rajesh
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