From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 04:01:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E5616A4CE; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:01:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from publicd.ub.mng.net (publicd.ub.mng.net [202.179.0.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F14E43D60; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:01:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from [202.179.0.164] (helo=ganbold.micom.mng.net) by publicd.ub.mng.net with asmtp (Exim 4.41 (FreeBSD)) id 1CKqe4-000MzW-8V; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:03:18 +0800 Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20041022115758.02b5c010@202.179.0.80> X-Sender: ganbold@micom.mng.net@202.179.0.80 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:00:41 +0900 To: Scott Long From: Ganbold In-Reply-To: <4178828E.7070002@freebsd.org> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20041022100206.02b42610@202.179.0.80> <4178828E.7070002@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-amd64-RC1 problem on Dual AMD64 with 8GB RAM (IBM@server 325, ServeRAID 6M) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:01:01 -0000 Hi, At 12:46 PM 10/22/2004, you wrote: >Ganbold wrote: >>Hi, >>Now FreeBSD is started not working again even with 4GB of RAM. I added >>4GB of RAM before and with total 8GB of RAM >>some tools and programs are started not working. Then I reduces RAM back >>to 4GB and still same things are >>happening. Now I can't even login. Login exits with error. >>Somehow added RAM caused break in entire system. >>Any idea what is wrong with this? When FreeBSD-AMD64 will support more >>than 4GB of RAM? >>Should I install FreeBSD again? Or is there anyway I can fix? >>thanks in advance, >>Ganbold > >Your filesystem might have been damaged when you had the 8GB of RAM. >However, it's impossible to say given the small amount of information >that you have provided. I understand. You are absolutely right. >But to answer your question, FreeBSD supports >more than 4GB of RAM on amd64 (and i386 and likely ia64 and sparc64), >but certain storage drivers have bugs that are currently being fixed. I see. What should I do to help fix these kinds of problems? I'm ready to test. >I can say with certainty that all of the modern Adaptec drivers >support >4GB just fine, as do several other SCSI drivers. We don't have any choice right now, only ServeRAID 6M adapter :( Ganbold >Scott >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >