From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 09:31:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF6E1065696; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout1.freenet.de (mout1.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947838FC21; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:31:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.22] (helo=12.mx.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #65) id 1KoaoN-0005ow-9c; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:30:59 +0200 Received: from ra1a5.r.pppool.de ([89.54.161.165]:18403 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 12.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #65) id 1KoaoN-00024b-1a; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:30:59 +0200 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:30:57 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: JoaoBR Message-ID: <20081011113057.7402300c@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br> References: <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:31:03 -0000 On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:29:37 -0300 JoaoBR wrote: > I tried MBs as Asus, Abit and Gigabyte all same result > > Same hardware with SATA works perfect > > Same hardware with scsi up to 3.5Gigs installed works perfect > > what calls my attention that all this MBs do not have the memroy hole > remapping feature so the complete 4gigs are available what normally was not > the case with amd64 Mbs for the Athlon 64 CPUs > > some has an opinion if this is a freebsd issue or MB falure or scsi drv > problem? > It's a driver problem. If you want to use SCSI then you'll have to limit memory to 3.5 GB. --- Gary Jennejohn