Boo-Yah! 8GB (2x4GB) works in pro.

TeknoJnky wrote:
the missing 128m could be a bios and/or video rom 'shadowing'. Obviously there is no video out on the readynas's, but that does not mean there isn't video card/framebuffer hardware there. btw, glad to hear 8gb works, I'd love to have that in my pro along with some vbox VM's

There is true and real video hardware on the board. There's a VGA header and everything. There's just not a DB15 on the back anywhere. That's why I mentioned digging up a cable somewhere.

However, mrwizardno2 has, in fact, connected a head to his via that same header. Go here: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=40162&start=0&hilit=ReadyNAS+Pro+RNDP6350+Possible+Flash+Disk+Boot+Failure

I'm fairly confident that the memory is the video reservation. If you look at the dmesg output you can see the BIOS reservations. It's really the only thing that makes sense for such a large BIOS reservation. Most boards that have such a feature also grant the ability to set the amount of memory reserved for this purpose. Therefore it could well be that all one has to do is hook up a head and keyboard and lower it.

Or, if one knows the layout, an easier way may well be to load up the nvram module and 'massage' that data appropriately there.

--Gary