Re: aacraid and large memory problem (2.6.0-test11)
Kevin Fenzi <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:53:39 -0700
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Haverkamp <[email protected]> writes: Mark> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:28, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Haverkamp <[email protected]> writes: >> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE/2K8l3imCezTjY0ERAr0aAJkBLLGSLT5f4XygLR7uTwvQ6bQWSwCeIpUQ GNFgepA9aOlk0MMUGDNHGmY= =wOp5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-aacraid-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-aacraid-devel Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq or search the list archives at http://lists.us.dell.com/htdig/