am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

JoaoBR joao at matik.com.br
Mon Oct 13 05:44:28 PDT 2008


On Sunday 12 October 2008 06:57:11 Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:51:18 +0200
>
> Fabian Wenk <fabian at 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.
>


I guess his MB is not an AM2 socket 


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João







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