Re: [cobalt-security] max memorysize in raq's and qube's

[Harald Kapper <hk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:32:07 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>We have found the maximum to be 768 MB on RaQ3/4. They 'appear' to run
>with 1GB. The problem is with the tag RAM on the MB. If the Motherboard
>tag RAM spec is exceeded there will be a fault, and the system will crash.
>
>We discovered this while doing restores on systems with 1GB of RAM,
>the restore process crashes during the formatting of hd4/md4.
>Also if you reboot a system with 1GB RAM you will see a warning in dmesg.
>
>I could be wrong, if so please correct me...

hi
I guess you're wrong :)

Never had a problem in restoring or OSRCD'ing fully ram-equipped RaQs.

and dmesg here just says:

Ignoring bogus EBDA pointer 3DEE000
Warning only 960MB will be used.
Detected 448219 kHz processor.
Pending 0x00
Calibrating delay loop... 894.57 BogoMIPS
Memory: 971256k/983040k available (1252k kernel code, 412k reserved,
10056k data, 64k init)

well, if it can only run on 960 MB - that's fine with me :-)

hth,
hk