Re: aacraid and large memory problem (2.6.0-test11)

Kevin Fenzi <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:53:39 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.aacraid.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Haverkamp <[email protected]> writes:

Mark> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:28, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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>> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Haverkamp <[email protected]> writes:
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Mark> I set up my machine to boot on the aacraid disk and it booted OK
Mark> for me.  Maybe its a problem with a particular model?
>>
Mark> lspci on mine says:
>>
Mark> 02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Digital Equipment Corporation
Mark> DECchip 21554 (rev 01) Subsystem: Adaptec Adaptec 5400S
>> This one says:
>> 
>> 05:01.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01) Subsystem:
>> Adaptec AAC-RAID Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, 66Mhz, slow
>> devsel, latency 64, IRQ 96 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit,
>> prefetchable) [size=64M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
>> [size=64K] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
>> 
>> It's a 2200S controller. bios version 6008
>> 
Mark> Could you try this patch?  I took the code from the adaptec
Mark> version of the driver.  It fiddles with the dma mask on the
Mark> 2200S controller among others.

Sorry it took me so long to try it. ;) 

Just applied to a 2.6.0-test11 kernel and rebooted and it worked!
Boot came up fine and it sees all 8GB of memory. 

free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       8290996     712380    7578616          0      20956     569352
- -/+ buffers/cache:     122072    8168924
Swap:      8385920          0    8385920

Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1.2 Dec 10 2003)
AAC0: kernel 4.0.4 build 6008
AAC0: monitor 4.0.4 build 6008
AAC0: bios 4.0.0 build 6008
AAC0: serial b7e06ffafaf001
AAC0: 64 Bit PAE enabled
scsi0 : aacraid

This looks like a good patch here. 

Mark> Mark.

kevin
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