Ohh bugger. I suppose I'll have to live without PAE then. Thanks anyway. Cheers, Mark On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:19, Don Lewis wrote: > On 19 Aug, Mark Sergeant wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > When trying to compile a kernel for my 8 cpu DELL 8450's I recieve an > > extremly puzzling error, I get a bunch of errors when compiling a kernel > > that has the following options in it... > > > > options WITNESS > > options NETSMB > > options NETSMBCRYPTO > > options LIBMCHAIN > > options LIBICONV > > options PAE > > options SMP > > options APIC_IO > > > > Without PAE SMP or APIC_IO the kernel will compile fine. With these > > options I get the following error when compiling the sym scsi driver. > > Take a look at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PAE. It says: > > # What follows is a list of drivers that are normally in GENERIC, but either > # don't work or are untested with PAE. Be very careful before enabling any > # of these drivers. Drivers which use DMA and don't handle 64 bit physical > # address properly may cause data corruption when used in a machine with more > # than 4 gigabytes of memory. > > and under this comment it lists the sym and usb drivers. -- Mark Sergeant <msergeant_at_snsonline.net> SNSOnline Technical ServicesReceived on Mon Aug 18 2003 - 22:25:19 UTC
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