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Date:      Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:04:25 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Cc:        scottl@samsco.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, koitsu@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition
Message-ID:  <20081012210425.2e831414@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1Kp4nd-000CX9-5S@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
References:  <48F22245.1030201@samsco.org> <E1Kp4nd-000CX9-5S@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>

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On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:32:13 +0100
Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote:

> > Sorry for not responding back in Jan.  I have a hard time recommending
> > the 29320/39320 cards because of the long history they have with
> > incompatibilities with certain U320 drives.  I don't think that the
> 
> Out of interest, what cards would you recommend ? I have just
> started running 4 drives off a 29320, and it does the "dump" thing
> on boot, so I was thinking of replacing it with another PCI-X card.
> 
> > driver will be affected by memory size, but I haven't run it in several
> > years, and it could have rotted like ahc apparently did (though I still
> > have a hard time imagining how the rot could have taken place, hardly
> > anything has changed in the driver over the years).
> 
> I have a hard time beliving these don't work either - mainly because I
> am running a 4GB system with ahc (and now ahd) in it and have had no
> problems at all. Certainly Adaptec cards are so common that if there
> was something majorly broken in that driver we would be seeing a lot
> more reports of corruption surely ?
> 

Maybe it's BIOS related?  I have a new mobo from a different vendor
where I could give it a try and see if the corruption goes away.

---
Gary Jennejohn



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