Re: [iPAQ] 16MB have disappeared

The latin-base laguage ipaqs only have 16Mb of FlashRam, which is mtdblock3.
The 32 or 64MB figure is for RAM, half of which is /mnt/ramfs.

Benjamin Long

On Friday 24 August 2001 08:30, M. Eng wrote:
> M. Eng wrote
>
> >>I have an H3660 with 64 MB inside. After the Familiar install, df -ah
> >>displays : # df -ah Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted
> >> on /dev/mtdblock/3 15M 13M 2.1M 86% / proc
> >> 0 0 0 - /proc ramfs 15M 404k 14M 3%
> >> /mnt/ramfs devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts # So a
> >> total memory of 30-32 MB. Where are my spare 32 MB.
> >>How can I mount them in a way they will be mount automatiquely
> >>at each boot start.
>
> Hicks, Jamey wrote
>
> >You probably need to update the bootldr. There was a bug for awhile and
> >bootldr was only reporting 32MB of DRAM to Linux.
> >
> >The latest bootldr is 2.14.15
> >(ftp://ftp.handhelds.org/pub/linux/compaq/ipaq/stable/bootldr-0000-2.14.15
> >-b igkernel-mono, for both color and mono units)
> >
> >Jamey
>
> Hi
>
> Now I have update my bootloader but ther is still something funny with my
> memory. /dev/mtdblock/3 size is still 16MB. The total memory is 48MB. My
> iPAQ has 64MB. So where are the 16MB remainning and how can I recover them
> and add them to /dev/mtdblock/3
>
> # df -aH
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mtdblock/3 16M 14M 2.3M 86% /
> proc 0 0 0 - /proc
> ramfs 32M 504k 31M 2% /mnt/ramfs
> devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
> #
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jean-Luc
>
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Received on Fri Aug 24 05:59:32 2001