Re: Thanks!

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, William Heindl wrote:
>Thanks to all those who responded to my question about memory beyond
>64Meg on an IBM 560Z Thinkpad.  
>
>Thanks to the suggestions, I solved the problem by adding 
>
>append="mem=130496k"

>I suspect the "best" solution would be to move up to a 2.2 based
>kernel, but I just don't have the time, and this works.

A 2.2 kernel will not solve this.  I am running 2.2.14 on a Thinkpad 600E
that I purchased in October (I think it's still a shipping model but it
hasn't been the top of the line since about November 5).

Today I received my 128M memory upgrade to give it 196M.  I initially booted
2.2.14 with no parameters and it only recognised 64M.  I had to specifically
tell it the number of K in the way I advised you.
I think that 2.3.x may fix this.  But currently there is no ReiserFS driver
for 2.3.x so none of my file systems would work on 2.3.x (my Thinkpad is an
all-ReiserFS machine).

>PS -- By the way, Russell, I really like the Thinkpads as well.  I had
>one with the "butterfly" style keyboard until it got stolen. That was

Most people didn't seem to happy with the butterfly keyboard because they
were apparently a bit fragile.  Give me an elephant keyboard any day!  ;)

I've been pleased with the keyboard on my 600E.  After 2.5 months of
intensive use only one letter (the letter 'S') is starting to wear off the
keyboard.  With my old 380XD I had several keys wearing off after that amount
of time.

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