kern/60526: Post-PAE stable SMP machine freezes

[Eugene Grosbein]

Doug White wrote:

> Someone referred me to a EETimes article, and I have hundreds of Tyan
> S2510/S2518 boards I can reproduce the problem on under multiple operating
> systems.

I googled a little for ROSB4.

Here http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.1/1212.html
I've found the next statement:

> The system will lock solid when both IDE channels are accessed,
> and either one is using DMA. Since I want DMA, I simply abandon the
> secondary channel.

Is it possible do such a thing using FreeBSD?

Next, Linux seem to have a workarond(?) since 2002:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.1/0996.html

Soren, could you please look at this?

Eugene