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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:48:44 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition
Message-ID:  <20081011164844.3596a669@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081011100801.0868710B8@nyx.dalai-zebu.org>
References:  <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br> <20081011113057.7402300c@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20081011100801.0868710B8@nyx.dalai-zebu.org>

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On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:08:00 +0200 (CEST)
Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> >>>>> Gary Jennejohn writes:
> 
>  > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:29:37 -0300
>  > JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> 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).
> 

I observed the same problem with ahc.  Can't say whether the sym driver
has the problem because I don't have such a controller.  I've now taken
my SCSI drives out of service and am using SATA only.

---
Gary Jennejohn



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