From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 14:48:51 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 CAE35106568A; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:48:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout4.freenet.de (mout4.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 640C98FC1D; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:48:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.21] (helo=11.mx.freenet.de) by mout4.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #65) id 1Koflw-0000kD-Cd; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:48:48 +0200 Received: from ra1a5.r.pppool.de ([89.54.161.165]:20308 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 11.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #65) id 1Koflw-00045X-48; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:48:48 +0200 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:48:44 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Jean-Marc Zucconi 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> 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 14:48:51 -0000 On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:08:00 +0200 (CEST) Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > >>>>> 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). > 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