Re: Memory detection, a Supermicro P6DGU board, and 2.2.1 (vanilla).

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:18:06 -0500


> Memory detection works fine on my Abit BH6 with Bios HN. Is your memory
> all there when you tell linux how much there is? Some of the BH6 motherboards

Telling it 'mem=128m' does the trick.

> were reported to have various defects including problems with some
> combinations of dimms not working in the various dimm slots. Also, the bios
> has a setting for "OS Select For DRAM > 64MB". The 2 choices are for OS2 and
> Non-OS2. I don't know if this affects linux or not, but you may want to check
> and see what it is set to.

I've always left it on "Non-OS2", having used BIOSs from fu, gy, hn, and now
jj.

It's a single 128MB stick, Hitachi PC100 CAS3 and works great overall.
It's not one of those "overloaded" sticks that cause trouble on most
motherboards.

Win9x, NT4, NT5, and BeOS all detect it fine. I'll try Non-OS2 and see
if Linux detects it then.

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