amd64/135040: FreeBSD/amd64 does not (always) detect disk on SB600/AliveXFire eSata 2

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 29 May 2009 6:50:05 am Alexander Motin wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR amd64/135040; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, ralf.folkerts at gmx.de
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: amd64/135040: FreeBSD/amd64 does not (always) detect disk on
>  SB600/AliveXFire eSata 2
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:49:17 +0300
> 
>  Could you try to remove some memory from your system to make it have <=
>  3GB? Some devices/drivers may have issues with more then about 3.5GB of
>  physical RAM on amd64.

You can also just do 'set hw.physmem=4g' in the loader to test that theory w/o 
needing to crack the case open.

-- 
John Baldwin