Re: Specifying Ultra-SCSI? Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB

1998-07-18 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi Christopher and Oliver, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Christopher Barry wrote: > >> In /etc/lilo.conf, > >> ... > >> # Linux - 2.0.33 > >> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.33 > >> label=linux2033 > >> append="mem=96m aic7xxx=ultra" > >> > I don't have aic7xxx=ultra set at boot-time. Loo

Re: Specifying Ultra-SCSI? Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB

1998-07-18 Thread Christopher Barry
I don't know enough about it to comment on it either. Did you add the "aic7xxx=ultra" to 'append=' yourself though or was this done automatically? Oliver Elphick wrote: > Christopher Barry wrote: > >> In /etc/lilo.conf, > >> ... > >> # Linux - 2.0.33 > >> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.33 > >>

Re: Specifying Ultra-SCSI? Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB

1998-07-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Christopher Barry wrote: >> In /etc/lilo.conf, >> ... >> # Linux - 2.0.33 >> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.33 >> label=linux2033 >> append="mem=96m aic7xxx=ultra" >> > >Which specific Adaptec chipset are you using? The 7880? I have a 2940UW PCI >card and I I have the same ca

Specifying Ultra-SCSI? Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB

1998-07-18 Thread Christopher Barry
Oliver Elphick wrote: > "Alex Kwan" wrote: > >I have seen the FAQ on FreeBSD documents, > >It was said that if the system have more than > >64MB RAM, the user needed to use kernel > >option specified the actual RAM size, > >because I want to extend the RAM to 128M > >in my Hamm, so

Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB

1998-07-18 Thread Randy Edwards
> It was said that if the system have more than > 64MB RAM, the user needed to use kernel > option specified the actual RAM size, Yes, you do need to tell the kernel about more than 64 megs of RAM. Assuming you are using LILO to boot your system, just add the following line to your /etc/lilo.

Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB

1998-07-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Alex Kwan" wrote: >I have seen the FAQ on FreeBSD documents, >It was said that if the system have more than >64MB RAM, the user needed to use kernel >option specified the actual RAM size, >because I want to extend the RAM to 128M >in my Hamm, so I have two questions: >(1) Does the Li

Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB

1998-07-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 10:44:22PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > It was said that if the system have more than > 64MB RAM, the user needed to use kernel > option specified the actual RAM size, > (1) Does the Linux is seem? > (2) If needed, how to? You may want to try it without further options first

RAM SIZE large than 64MB

1998-07-18 Thread Alex Kwan
I have seen the FAQ on FreeBSD documents, It was said that if the system have more than 64MB RAM, the user needed to use kernel option specified the actual RAM size, because I want to extend the RAM to 128M in my Hamm, so I have two questions: (1) Does the Linux is seem? (2) If needed, how to? Bes