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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

We have a 100MHz (24MB RAM) and a 266MHz (32MB RAM) Toshiba laptop 
computer, both came with bad hard drives.  BL3.40.

I made swap files of 24MB and 32MB.


Newer Toshiba:

Using Steven's 2.2.16 and 2.2.26 (512K) kernels, and David's and my 2.4.31 
USB mass storage and scsi kernels I get the following values from 'free'

Newer Toshiba with one USB port:

        Total   Used    Free    Shared  Buffers
2.2.16  30,948  30,120  828     464     25,928
2.2.26  -       30,368  -       -       26,152 (- means did not notice)
2.4.31  30,712  30,080  632     0       96      Mine with scsi as modules
2.4.31  30,484  29,784  700     0       96      David's (scsi built in)


Older Toshiba with no USB port:

2.4.31  22,380  12,932  9448    0       708     Mine with scsi as modules

Why is 17MB more memory being used on the newer USB Toshiba with all 
kernels than on the older Toshiba, and why does 2.4.31-USB not use it for 
buffers like the older kernels?  I don't have a non-USB 2.4.31 kernel to 
test (no need for it).  Is the kernel buggy?

We will use a 2.4.31 kernel on the laptop only to read a USB device, which 
can be done in DOS for the memory stick and the CF card (we also have a 
PCMCIA adaptor) and a camera with another type of memory and USB direct 
cable,  but not the SM card reader, which does work in linux 2.4.31.

Neither DOS nor linux (either kernel) could even see a Kingston 256MB 
memory stick which someone told me was recognized (by Windows or maybe our 
DOS USB setup?) as having a CD-ROM type partition or two partitions.  I 
had offered to reformat it.  It was given out at a convention with info on 
it.  Someone had two of them and may not have actually checked this one.
Maybe I need to recompile my kernel to recognize Kingston USB stick.  I 
will try a Slackware USB kernel with it.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org