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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:30:57 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition
Message-ID:  <20081011113057.7402300c@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br>
References:  <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br>

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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.

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Gary Jennejohn



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