Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:52:28 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition Message-ID: <20081013125228.GA19035@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <200810130947.28905.joao@matik.com.br> References: <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br> <20081011165250.GA67552@icarus.home.lan> <48F2217C.9010000@samsco.org> <200810130947.28905.joao@matik.com.br>
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:47:28AM -0200, JoaoBR wrote: > On Sunday 12 October 2008 14:10:36 Scott Long wrote: > > > >> I am using some LSI (mpt driver) ultra4 (U320 scsi) and LSI SAS > > >> controllers in FreeBSD 7.x amd64 with 20G of ram, and Adaptec (aac > > >> driver) with a 5th generation RAID card with 8G of ram, both have no > > >> such corruption problems. Providing this as a counter-example just to > > >> document some evidence of which products seem to work fine. > > > > > > Is your LSI SAS controller driven by mpt(4) or mfi(4)? > > > > I can personal vouch for MPT and MFI drivers working just fine with >4GB. > > > > let narrow this a little bit, are you talking about AM2 sockets? > > because on AM2 the MPT drv is faulty as AHC, AHD and AACD with => 4Gigs David, Fabian, and Adam -- are any of you using your cards in an AM2-based system? Also, I'm removing freebsd-stable from the list, since this appears to be mainly related to amd64 (not saying it's a FreeBSD problem, just saying it manifests itself so far on amd64). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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