am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

[Jean-Marc Zucconi]

>>>>> Gary Jennejohn writes:

 > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:29:37 -0300
 > JoaoBR <joao at 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

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