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From: george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Is VM for 030 Macs in S7
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.201820.15457@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: 14 Apr 91 20:18:20 GMT
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In article <1991Apr14.194137.8329@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dbert@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert) writes:
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>>I have 7.0F2 on an 8 meg IIcx with an 80 Meg drive.  I've about 30 Meg free.
>>However, I can't seem to get more than 3 Meg of virtual (for a total of 11).
>>
>>What am I doing wrong?
>>
>Your problem is most likely that although you have 30 Meg free, your drive is
>fragmented and 3 Meg is the largest contiguous block you have.  Defragment your
>drive and I'll bet you can get more VM.  (Though I think cx's are limited to
>16M total (virtual + physical) because the ROMs are not 32-bit clean.  Is this
>the case or am I mistaken?

I tried defragging the drive...didn't help.

It looks like the problem is that the IIcx doesn't have 32-bit clean roms. 
The reason I have only 11 Meg is that there can only be 14 Meb - 1 Meg for
each NuBus card.  Makes sense to me...I do have 3 NuBus cards.

Thanks to all who responded via e-mail!

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