Messages in this thread | | | From | (Paul Gortmaker) | Subject | Re: Rampage Plus 286 EMS boards programming info. | Date | Thu, 21 May 1998 00:48:19 +1000 (EST) |
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> memory. Furthermore using the boards for actual memory may be impossible. > EMS was accessed thru a 64K page frame that contained 4 16K pages at one > time. This means that if the card is an EMS card it will probably be > inaccessable linearly. You will have to access it thru 16K pages, only 4 of > which will be present in the EMS page frame at any one time.
In which case you use a hacked up ramdisk driver that includes the EMS page selection code (whatever that may entail) and then use the resulting block device as a swap device with a higher priority than your disk swap. (You probably want to do the ramdisk-swap thing regardless of whether it is EMS or XMS, since the RAM on the ISA bus will be considerably slower than RAM on the motherboard.)
Paul.
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