From: Andreas Steidl 
Subject: Memory > 16MB not detected
Date: 1998/05/14
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I am using a Novell 3.12-System with an EISA-Motherboard. Till now it
works fine. After an Upgrade with a new SCSI-Harddisk (4GByte) and
Memory from 16MB to 52MB the server doesn't allocate the Memory > 16MB
under Novell (command MEMORY). If I use REGISTER MEMORY 1000000 2400000
a get a system crash:
Nonmaskable Interrupt Processor Exception
Parity Error was generated by the system board
Running Process: Ininalising Process
then a hex dump and I can only switch off and an the server.

Also the SET command SET AUTO REGISTER MEMORY ABOVE 16
MEGABYTES = OFF in the file STARTUP.NCF doesn't help.

Did someone have an idea? Thanks in advance.

My Hardware:
EISA Motherboard PET48PM
ScsiPro SP-274 SCSI EISA-Controller (NCR 53C700-66 SCSI I/O prozessor)
2x 3COM Etherlink III EISA-Netzwerkadapter
AHA-1520 SCSI IDE-Controller
52 MB-Memory
3x SCSI-Harddisk (2x 1GByte, 1x 4GByte)
1x DAT HP Surestore

STARTUP.NCF
, set auto register memory above 16 megabytes = off
set reserved buffers below 16 meg = 200
;******* PM312 is the NW v3.12 Patch Manager. ********
LOAD C:\SERVER.312\PATCHES\312PTC\PM312
PMLOAD C:\SERVER.312\PATCHES\312PTC\
;** PMLOAD loads all patches in directory specified.**
load SP274NW3 slot=1 
load AHA1520 port=140 int=C 
load OS2

AUTOEXEC.NCF
file server name OEFSE
ipx internal net 300699
# Speicher oberhalb 16MB nutzen
# register memory 1000000 2400000
load conlog
load tcpip forward=yes
....

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Andreas Steidl
Oesterreichische Forschungsstiftung fuer Entwicklungshilfe
Berggasse 7
A-1090 Wien
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