Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:57:11 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition Message-ID: <20081012105711.33009734@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <48F11FD6.7050007@wenks.ch> References: <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br> <20081011113057.7402300c@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20081011101316.GA58119@icarus.home.lan> <20081011164529.198f32c6@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20081011144817.GB64861@icarus.home.lan> <48F0D3B5.6070602@egr.msu.edu> <20081011165250.GA67552@icarus.home.lan> <48F11FD6.7050007@wenks.ch>
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:51:18 +0200 Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> wrote: > Hello Jeremy > > On 11.10.08 18:52, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Could the problem be specific to certain firmware revisions on the > > cards? > > Some other idea, which versions of FreeBSD/amd64 are affected? > Only 8-CURRENT, or also 6.x- and/or 7.x-RELEASE? > > As far as I have seen from the reports, it does only happen with > more then 3.5 GB RAM and with SCSI disks. > > I do have a system with FreeBSD/amd64 6.3-RELEASE with 4 GB RAM > and an Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter (ahc) with only a tape > drive connected. The disks are on an Areca RAID controller. Access > to the disks and the tape drive does work just fine without any > crashes. > This is interesting because the 29160 is exactly the controller with which I had all my problems, but I was running it with disks only. Maybe Scott, or someone, has fixed it in the meantime? I haven't tried to use the full 4 GB in my box since January since I can't afford data corruption. --- Gary Jennejohn
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