From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265211AbTLKRzc (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:55:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265213AbTLKRzc (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:55:32 -0500 Received: from scrye.com ([216.17.180.1]:57534 "EHLO mail.scrye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265211AbTLKRzF (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:55:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:53:39 -0700 From: Kevin Fenzi To: Mark Haverkamp Cc: linux-kernel , linux aacraid devel Subject: Re: aacraid and large memory problem (2.6.0-test11) In-Reply-To: <1070493945.25617.9.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20031202193520.74481F7CC8@voldemort.scrye.com> <1070396482.16903.11.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> <20031203205141.EB67EF7C86@voldemort.scrye.com> <1070488662.21904.6.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> <20031203222840.6A4E6F7C86@voldemort.scrye.com> <1070493945.25617.9.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid Message-Id: <20031211175342.1D94DF7C86@voldemort.scrye.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Haverkamp writes: Mark> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:28, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Haverkamp 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 [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 iD8DBQE/2K8l3imCezTjY0ERAr0aAJkBLLGSLT5f4XygLR7uTwvQ6bQWSwCeIpUQ GNFgepA9aOlk0MMUGDNHGmY= =wOp5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----