HDAMA Onboard SATA issues with installed RAM > 4GB

Harpreet Dhillon harpreet at dhillonz.net
Fri Jul 29 04:05:27 UTC 2005


Does it boot fine when you select to boot from UP kernel?
Try passing 'acpi=off' to kernel while booting and see if that helps. 
Some drivers still have issues with ACPI.

- harpreet

Eric Wort wrote:

> First off, I have never been able to get this machine to boot any 
> release of Fedora Core with more than 4GB of RAM installed, as it 
> starts having SATA seek errors.
>
> Configuration is as follows:
> Dual Opteron 248's in a RioWorks HDAMA board
> 4 or 8 GB worth of 1GB Corsair registered DDR400 sticks
> 2 SATA 74gig Raptors (for the OS)
> 2 SATA 200gig Seagates
> 3 PATA 200gig Seagates
> SATA drives are hooked to the Promise PDC20319 onboard controller
>
> Upon trying to upgrade to FC4 from FC2 with 4GB of RAM in the box, the 
> machine would crash just after detecting the videocard in anaconda.  
> For some reason I decided to randomly toss in the other 4 
> sticks(bringing the total to 8GB) and try the install again, which 
> worked perfectly during the entire install.  Upon rebooting the fresh 
> FC4 install, it had the same SATA seek errors as normal.  Taking the 
> box back down to 4GB allowed it to boot right up.  Does anyone know 
> why the install kernel would have zero problems with an hour long 
> install, while the stock FC4smp kernel can't even boot without seek 
> errors?  I imagine it may be due to the install kernel being single 
> processor, but I am not sure.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric Wort
>




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