Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:08:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition Message-ID: <20081011100801.0868710B8@nyx.dalai-zebu.org> In-Reply-To: <20081011113057.7402300c@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <200810101429.37244.joao@matik.com.br> <20081011113057.7402300c@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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>>>>> Gary Jennejohn writes: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:29:37 -0300 > JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> wrote: >> I tried MBs as Asus, Abit and Gigabyte all same result >> >> Same hardware with SATA works perfect >> >> Same hardware with scsi up to 3.5Gigs installed works perfect >> >> what calls my attention that all this MBs do not have the memroy hole >> remapping feature so the complete 4gigs are available what normally was not >> the case with amd64 Mbs for the Athlon 64 CPUs >> >> some has an opinion if this is a freebsd issue or MB falure or scsi drv >> problem? >> > It's a driver problem. If you want to use SCSI then you'll have to limit > memory to 3.5 GB. Is this specific to the Adaptec driver or all of them are affected by the bug? I am considering upgrading to such a config, but with a tekram controller (sym). Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: KeyID: 400B38E9
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