Re: STRANGE ERROR MESSAGE HAS ME CONFUSED.....

[as647@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kalman Reti)]

>
>Dear SLUGgers,
>
>The 3640 that I think I am going to purchase has 2 2mw cards and 2 1 mw cards
>in it.  The cards are installed in this manner
>      slot 0          slot 1     slot 2     slot 3       slot 4
>       2 MW           2 MW       1 MW       I/O card     1MW
>
>
>When I active the hello.boot program it does this...
>
>it loads all the command files and then
>Initializes the hardware tables...
>
>When it gets to the card in slot four it does this
>"Card being assigned to slot 6
> card being assigned to slot 5
> card being assigned to slot 29. -- no room in memory space "
>
>What does this mean?
>Will it be a problem later?
>There is exactly 6 MW of memory so should it be doing this to me?
>
>
>Ed Smith
>
>
Each 2MW memory card occupies four slots of address space (each slot
being 512K); only one is determined by the slot the car resides in,
the rest have to be assigned dynamically by the FEP from the set of
free slots.  When it gets to the last bank of the second card, it
has run out of free slots, and so that 512K will be inaccessible.

A 3640 is an OBS, and only has half the slot addressibility of an NBS
(e.g. 3620 or 3650).