[huskerlug] Re: SCSI on a 486?

having been using (and collecting) Linux since 1997, I
do have Slackware since 3.2... Mandrake since 6.0, Red
Hat since 4.2, and others... Old kernels are
smaller... Need less ram, since I only have 28Mb.
 
--- Jim Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>       Now that isn't a whole lot of RAM.  It sounds like
> you do need a 
> 2.2 kernel, something like SuSE 6.3, 6.4, etc.  I
> don't know what 
> the RedHat version would be, but for a workstation,
> you may have a 
> hard time getting any meaningful graphics.
>       If you have some IDE CD-drives that didn't depend
> on the 
> connection from the main board, you could stick in
> one which had 
> it's own interface card and that should work.  I
> know I've done 
> that.
>       I'll be interested if you and get one of the pudgy
> 2.4.xx kernels
> shoehorned into that machine and having it work.  
> ---Jim
> 
> 
> On Monday 28 July 2003 17:39, you wrote:
> > The Vesa card is an Adaptec AHA-2842VL, with
> floppy
> > and SCSI connectors.  I am wondering about the RAM
> on
> > the mainboard.  It has 4 of the 72 pin slots. 
> When I
> > put in 8MB DIMMs, it adds them, except for the
> last
> > slot, which seems to be limited to 4MB of
> address...
> > So,
> > no matter the size of the ram Dimms, I get 28MB
> > instead of the 32 mb, when I install four 8mb
> sticks!
> >
> > Soyo /Sis board, w/ four ISA, and Four PCI
> slots...


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