Subject: Re: port-amiga/5672: system works unreliable with more than two memory segments
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/30/1998 13:29:37
On 30 Jun 1998, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> > The problems Matthias and Todd are seeing could certainly be related
> > to _bad_ memory, however.
> 
> I doubt that for two reasons:
> 
> 1.) If my Amiga runs with only two memory segments the new SIMMs are still
>     in use. The 8MB that are unused are in that system for years and
>     never caused trouble.
> 
> 2.) I don't think that bad memory would cause a bug which can be reproduced
>     that precisely.

I think I see a pattern here and I also think I have more wood for the
fire.  Let it be known that the sun3x port, which can support four memory
segments if configured with 16 MBytes of memory, fails to make it into
single user mode if compiled with UVM and there are more than two memory
segments available.

-J