From: "Jim Queen" 
Subject: Re: 4k Blocks....
Date: 1998/08/03
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Aug 1998 02:38:04 GMT
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I believe the problem stems from your use of the register memory command.
If you setup the
system NOT to register memory automatically, you will have problems mounting
large volumes and/or
volumes with a large number of blocks.

You SHOULD be able to let the server register memory automatically (leave
auto register memory above
16 meg to ON in startup.ncf).  Although the command indicates it's for EISA
machines, most PCI
machines will correctly report memory to NetWare (unless the BIOS is not set
to see the RAM).

If you manually register memory, there is a convoluted process of running an
autoexec.ncf file from the
DOS partition to make sure the memory is registered prior to mounting the
server volumes.  There is
a tech bulletin that outlines these steps at http://support.novell.com in
the knowledgebase.

Neil@optimaweb.net wrote in message
...
>Ok,
>
>Heres todays dumb question.....and yes it's been driving me crazy all day!
>
>We have been trying to set up 3.12 on a server to do duplexing. The server
>is a p2/300 with two 7gb maxtor IDE drives and 392 megs of ram.
>
>We are registering the memory in the autoexec.ncf with the REGISTER MEMORY
>1000000 16000000 command.
>
>Now the problem....the system will not mount sys with 4k block size, but it
>will with 8k block size. Even with only one drive in the system it still
>doesn't like 4k block size.
>
>The error message we get is:
>
>Volume sys not mounted cache memory allocator out of available memory
>Insufficient memory available to mount volume.
>
>But we then type MEMORY the system reports: 392,832 kilobytes
>
>Change to 8k block and up she comes!! with 97% free resources.
>
>Any thoughts??
>
>Thanks
>
>Neil