Re: Linux not finding all installed RAM

[Mike Slack <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BIOS is American Megatrends
PnP Aware OS is set to "No"
AGP card aperture is set to "128MB" (Is this the likely culprit?)

Mike

Interesting about those RAID cards; next time I'll go that route instead of getting free stuff from friends. 

Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.HN.org) wrote:
> >Yep, I tried different values (128M, 256M, 383M).  In all cases, the OS sees 64M.  Any other suggestions?
> 
> What BIOS do you have? (Is this think a Compaq {gag, cough...}?)
> In BIOS is PnP OS set to Yes or No?
> Do you have an AGP card with an aperature set lower than the top of your
> memory pile?
> 
> >I think the /dev/hde thing is because of the (IDE) RAID controller, but I could be wrong.  I thought it was pretty weird, too, but I was happy that it works at all.  I wouldn't recommend IDE RAID to others, even though it is a much cheaper way to mirror disk drives than the usual SCSI RAID.
> 
> Nah, IBM UW 3 Channel RAID controllers available on e-bay for $50~75 on
> a regular basis.  They work in everything I've tried, except one Dell,
> which was very unhappy about it.  With *three* scsi channels and it's
> own RAM and PowerPC chip,  these puppies rock.  IBM provided Raid
> Manager tools for Linux, and the card uses the "ips" module (provided by
> default with RH).
>  
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