Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:43:22 -0200 From: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition Message-ID: <200810130943.22079.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20081012105711.33009734@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br> <48F11FD6.7050007@wenks.ch> <20081012105711.33009734@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Sunday 12 October 2008 06:57:11 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:51:18 +0200 > > Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> wrote: > > Hello Jeremy > > > > On 11.10.08 18:52, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Could the problem be specific to certain firmware revisions on the > > > cards? > > > > Some other idea, which versions of FreeBSD/amd64 are affected? > > Only 8-CURRENT, or also 6.x- and/or 7.x-RELEASE? > > > > As far as I have seen from the reports, it does only happen with > > more then 3.5 GB RAM and with SCSI disks. > > > > I do have a system with FreeBSD/amd64 6.3-RELEASE with 4 GB RAM > > and an Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter (ahc) with only a tape > > drive connected. The disks are on an Areca RAID controller. Access > > to the disks and the tape drive does work just fine without any > > crashes. > > This is interesting because the 29160 is exactly the controller with > which I had all my problems, but I was running it with disks only. > > Maybe Scott, or someone, has fixed it in the meantime? I haven't > tried to use the full 4 GB in my box since January since I can't > afford data corruption. > I guess his MB is not an AM2 socket -- Joćo A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.brhome | help
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