>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> On Tuesday 30 November 2004 11:39 am, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:05:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote.. >> >> > After a bunch of frustrating debugging, I've tenatively come to >> the > conclusion that the isp(4) driver is not 64 bit safe --- at >> the > very least insofar as the amd64 platform is concerned. >> >> Side note: isp(4) has been in use for years on Alpha, and I do not >> recall having seen problems like yours on it. Mind you, not much >> FC connections I ever used on it. The only thing critical for >> success on Alpha is loading ispfw.ko *always*. Matt (mjacob) has >> noted that multiple times, and he is absolutely right. >> >> Wilko Peter> I haven't seen an alpha with more than 2G of ram that we booted Peter> on. Is it possible that isp has never been tested with >4G Peter> ram? I had the machine tested with hw.physmem=2g and it works. Peter> Secondly.. what release is this on? I'm wondering if the Peter> horrific busdma bugs in 5.3-RELEASE might be a problem if the Peter> machine does have >> 4G ram. I updated to -STABLE as of yesterday morning and it changed the nature of the panic somewhat, but did not fix it. Peter> Third, is this a machine ram size problem or a disk volume size Peter> problem? The original post was about a 131G FC volume and Peter> calculating the wrong number of sectors and the wrong sector Peter> size... Someone pointed out to me that my integer was 0xDEADBEEF ... which somewhat squared with my use of 'options INVARIANTS' on the kernel. Note that the scsi_da.c size printf shows the correct size. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
