Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > There is a problem with recent ATA drivers on (at least) AMD64 with 4 GB > of RAM, which can be triggered by synchronizing a geom mirror provider > to another one (or generally a bigger disk I/O, I guess). > > The machine dies instantly with the following: > GEOM_MIRROR: Device hars: rebuilding provider ad6. > ad6: setting up DMA failed > ad6: setting up DMA failed > > This is true either on RELENG_6 and on HEAD as of today. > > There are two workarounds: > - use the ata driver from RELENG_6 which is not older than 2005.10.08 > - set hw.physmem smaller than 4G > > Are there any chances to resolve this issue? > > Thank you. > > ps: there was some discussion about this: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-amd64&m=113034973432742&w=2 > where Søren said it might be busdma, not the ata driver and Scott > promised to look into that. The resolution was that busdma doesn't work as advertised in the man page, and that scottl would look into it. -Søren >Received on Mon Nov 28 2005 - 13:23:49 UTC
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