[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Memory Issue

[Dan Carlson]

The memory hole at 15-16 MB was used back in the bad old days when the
16-bit ISA bus was state-of-the-art.  Bus-master ISA cards needed address
space to reside in, and the 15-16 MB hole became the defacto standard
address range to put them in.

The only reason I can think of to turn this setting on today would be to run
one of these old ISA bus-master cards, if you had a legitimate need to do so
for some special function device.  Realistically, I expect that there are
very few people on the planet that have a need for this option in the BIOS
on a modern system.  The BIOS vendors would do most people a favor by
removing this option.

Dan Carlson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory L. Camp" <Gregory.Camp at osc.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 10:18 AM
Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Memory Issue


> Check for a setting in BIOS that reads "Memory hole at 15-16M"  I'm not
> really sure what it is used for, but when that setting is turned on, your
PC
> will only report 15MB to the OS.
>
> Gregory L. Camp
> Gregory.Camp at osc.com
>