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Subject: Re: anyone successfully using an icp-vortex / iir controller?
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:13:56AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
>>I run an IIR controller on one of our servers just fine ... 4GB of RAM, 
>>FreeBSD 4.x ... haven't tried 6.x on it yet ...
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> 
> It's known to be broken on any system with >4GB of RAM.
> 
> Kris
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> 

I'll strengthen that statement and say that it is completely, 100% 
unusable with 4GB of RAM or more.  You are guaranteed to get data 
corruption on the second I/O that you send.  Fixing this requires
re-writing much of the driver, unfortunately.

Scott