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AST RESEARCH TECHNICAL BULLETIN TB-0174 4-30-86
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MP-MINI MEMORY ADDRESSING
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It has been determined that there is potential for the MP-Mini to
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cause memory errors under certain conditions.
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These problems could occur when using the 256K MP-Mini
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configuration (without the Mini-Pak).
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The MP-Mini has no hardware method of determining where memory
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addressing should stop if the MP-Mini is not fully configured
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with 384K of RAM. The board is meant to start at an address of
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256K and end at 640K. If any software application attempts to
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establish the amount of memory available with only 256K of Ram
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on the MP-Mini installed, a "parity check two" error could be
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generated, locking the machine up.
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One program where this occurs is with Norton Utilities' "SYSINFO"
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program. This program checks to see what equipment is installed
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in the PC. When it attempts to check memory size with a 256K MP-
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Mini installed a "parity check two" error is generated.
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