Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-11 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:31 PM Felix Miata wrote: > dmccunney composed on 2021-03-10 16:56 (UTC-0500): > > >> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500): > > >>> ...It has 20GB RAM > > >> What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB? > > > Nope. It has four DRAM slots, and came with

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-11 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 22:37, Jon Brase wrote: > Unfortunately, it's not working. OnTrack sees the same ultra-small capacity > for the drive as the BIOS and Linux see on that machine. It picks up the > other 40 GB 2.5" PATA drive, but the SSD + Adapter can't be extended from > what the BIOS

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-11 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 00:32, dmccunney wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:07 PM Jon Brase wrote: > > On 3/9/21 4:35 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > > As a general rule, consumer machines are I/O bound, not compute bound. > > > The CPU spends most of its time in an idle loop waiting for stuff to > >

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-11 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 17:51, dmccunney wrote: > > I had a Unix machine at home before I got the XT clone. I was Tech > Support Manager for a small Unix systems house that resold AT kit > when AT was in the computer business, and an AT 3B1 joined the > family. [...] I have heard of the 3B1, 3B2

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-11 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:28 PM Aitor SantamarĂ­a wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 23:57, Eric Auer wrote: >> >> If you are interested in alive dragons, visit a Komodo Dragon. >> Those lizards do have some dragon-like properties, but they are >> not dinosaurs either - too "modern" species for

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-11 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hi, On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 16:03, dmccunney wrote: > > > (What's more, in my personal belief, the second most alive intelligent > species after Homo Sapiens is one of them). > (And the African Grey parrot is likely the bird > you are thinking of.) > Right. > But while they may have evolved

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-11 Thread Felix Miata
dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 09:51 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Odds are that 32GB capable board features dual channel RAM. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architecture > Possible. >> IME when RAM is not used in matched pairs in correct slots in a dual channel

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-11 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:48 PM Felix Miata wrote: > dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 17:43 (UTC-0500): > > > The RAM here is all DDR4, same speed, and the only difference is one > > stick is 8GB. (I may add another 8GB sick at some point, but it won't > > be soon.) > > > When I said I *saw* no

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-11 Thread Felix Miata
dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 17:43 (UTC-0500): > The RAM here is all DDR4, same speed, and the only difference is one > stick is 8GB. (I may add another 8GB sick at some point, but it won't > be soon.) > When I said I *saw* no performance difference I meant exactly that. > I have a simple

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-11 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 5:05 PM Felix Miata wrote: > dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 09:51 (UTC-0500): > > >> IME when RAM is not used in matched pairs in correct slots in a dual > >> channel > >> board, RAM speed (memtest86) is cut by nearly half. Did you test RAM speed > >> before > >> and