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, JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>, 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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