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Douglas K. Rand wrote this message on Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 14:11 -0600:
> Nathan> I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with
> Nathan> machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues
> Nathan> still exist?
> 
> Kris> Some specific drivers do not work on such systems.  FreeBSD
> Kris> itself has no problems.
> 
> Is there a means of telling (or even better, a list) which drivers
> handle (or those that don't) more than 4 GB of RAM?

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/busdma/

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