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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: What Happens If You Have > 9 Meg??
Message-ID: <744@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 16:40:39 GMT
References: <6931@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <6931@crash.cts.com> lgreen@pnet01.cts.com (Lawrence Greenwald) writes:
>I've always been curious about the 9 Meg limit on the 2000. What would happen
>if I were to have more than 9 meg in the machine, say in one of the following
>combinations:
>
>1)   1meg motherboard memory
>     2meg A2052 card
>     8meg GVP Series II w/RAM
>   ---
>    11 meg physical RAM
>
>2)   1meg motherboard memory
>     8meg GVP Series II w/RAM
>     4meg 32-bit memort (A2630)
>   ---
>    13 meg physical RAM
>
>What would happen? Machine refuse to boot? Software go crazy?

Everytime the last card in the row would refuse to autoconfig.
Its memory simply wouldn't show up. For Autoconfiguration,
the system only has the 8 MB pool of address space and when a
certain board doesn't fit into this space or its remainder then
it will not get activated.

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