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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 memory installation woes
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Date: 22 Jul 90 00:13:46 GMT
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In <1031@tau.sm.luth.se>, d87-khd@sm.luth.se (Karl-Gunnar Hultland) writes:
>In article <1787@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>
>>512K not 'registering'? Well, the ram you put in (2 megs, or 16 chips), is in
>>2, 1 Meg 'banks' of 8 chips per 'bank'.  If you had one bad chip, 1 meg would
>>be missing.  The 512K you see as missing is from the chunk that the MMU maps
>>out to place the KS in, whether 1.3 or 2.0. In other words, it's normal.
>
>Will this be the case when the ROMs are burned too?

Yes and no. Yes, the memory will be in the same physical 'bank' arrangement,
and no, the kickstart will not take up 512K of RAM.

-larry

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