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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:34:16 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 problem on Dual AMD64 2.2GHz with 8GB RAM continues
Message-ID:  <20041029033416.GC13963@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041029101540.02b28eb0@202.179.0.80>
References:  <6.1.2.0.2.20041029101540.02b28eb0@202.179.0.80>

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On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:25:07AM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
> >By chance, have you tried both with 4GB per CPU and with all 8GB on one
> >CPU?  Did it make a difference?
> 
> With 4GB RAM I compiled kernel without ATA support and tried new kernel 
> with 8GB RAM.

You definately don't want to use ATA, so it is good you compiled it out.
It is felt by several of us that there is a problem with ATA in >4GB
systems right now.

Correct me if I'm wrong -- Scott Long verified that the driver for the
IBM RAID controller you are using is 64-bit clean and has no known issues
on >4GB systems?

> I checked memory with memtest. No errors, passed everything.

That is a good sign. :-)
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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