From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 10:08:03 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 D2DD51065687; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:08:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmz@dalai-zebu.org) Received: from qix.dalai-zebu.org (qix.dalai-zebu.org [IPv6:2001:7a8:1c5b::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F098FC21; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:08:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmz@dalai-zebu.org) Received: from nyx.dalai-zebu.org (nyx [192.168.10.2]) by qix.dalai-zebu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209532E3E7; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:08:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by nyx.dalai-zebu.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0868710B8; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:08:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de In-Reply-To: <20081011113057.7402300c@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br> <20081011113057.7402300c@ernst.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: Emacs 21.3.1 Message-Id: <20081011100801.0868710B8@nyx.dalai-zebu.org> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:08:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:24:57 +0000 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 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 10:08:03 -0000 >>>>> Gary Jennejohn writes: > 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. Is this specific to the Adaptec driver or all of them are affected by the bug? I am considering upgrading to such a config, but with a tekram controller (sym). Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: KeyID: 400B38E9