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Subject: Re: SiI 3114 woes
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David O'Brien wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:37:51PM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote:
> 
>> But I have never been able to successfully install
>>FreeBSD({5.3/5.4/6.0Beta3/4} amd64/i386) on it, using SATA.
> 
> 
> How much memory is in your system?  I repeatedly panic when I try to use
> a SiI3114 RAID1 with 8GB RAM.  Though my traceback looks quite different
> from yours.
>   

I think that we've talked before about how that ATA driver, which the 
SiI chips fall under, simply is written wrong to handle >4GB of RAM.

Scott