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Date:      Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:41:35 +0100
From:      Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
To:        Thomas Hurst <tom@hur.st>
Cc:        bug-followup@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: amd64/87977 : [busdma] [panic] amd64 busdma dflt_lock called (by ata) if physmem>4G
Message-ID:  <43B1A6FF.4060208@fsn.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20051227203122.GA59870@voi.aagh.net>
References:  <200512271600.jBRG0Mim045012@freefall.freebsd.org> <43B17251.8030906@fsn.hu> <20051227203122.GA59870@voi.aagh.net>

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Thomas Hurst wrote:
>>I believe this is fixed in CURRENT. On 6-STABLE you can set hw.physmem
>>to use a smaller amount of memory or switch to the ata driver before
>>2005.10.08.
> Thanks for the pointer.  I grabbed sys/dev/ata and sys/sys/ata.h off
> my CURRENT laptop and popped it on my RELENG_6 Opteron and it appears
> to work fine with all 4G -- I can pull data off all 4 disks at >250M/s
> without trouble when I could previously not even get past mounting
> filesystems.
> Hope to see this merged before too long, but for now at least this pr is
> a little bit more useful :)
Good to hear that, thanks.

According to Soren the whole ATA driver will be merged soon.

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