I wonder if this fix might solve some of the problems I've had on my 264DP
which has 4Gb RAM. With a 3.1 SMP kernel it refused to see the drive 
connected to the IDE adapter... Where and how do I get and apply the fix?

I've had some weird hangs with the uniprocessor kernel as well... They 
might also be solved with this patch.

Cheers,
Anders

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Chris Wareham wrote:

> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:43:29 +0000
> From: Chris Wareham <chriswareham@chriswareham.demon.co.uk>
> To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
> Cc: port-alpha@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: PWS500au hangs if more than 1Gb of RAM is installed.
> 
> Michael L. Hitch said on 14/3/07 01:44:
>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Chris Wareham wrote:
>> 
>>> memory. Digging through previous posts I found that this is an old
>>> problem:
>>> 
>>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2002/05/20/0004.html
>>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2002/06/25/0004.html
>>> 
>>> If this isn't a regression, should it not be put mentioned in the FAQ
>>> until it's fixed?
>>
>>   I should have just committed a fix for this.  The PWS500au I just
>> acquired with 1.5GB of memory now works with the SCSI disks, as well as an 
>> IDE drive I tried.  It survived a full build of NetBSD.
>> 
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Many thanks for the fix. I built a 3.1 kernel with it applied, and my
> machine now sees both hard drives when 1.5Gb of RAM is installed. I
> pushed the machine pretty hard with a bunch of parallel kernel builds
> until top showed over 1Gb of RAM in use and saw no signs of trouble.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>

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