RE: SCSI Drives / Large Memory Kernel Panic

2007-07-17 Thread Bryan O'Neal
. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Badger Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:50 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: SCSI Drives / Large Memory Kernel Panic I wonder then if the SCSI card that doesn't work has a fixed IO address that ha

Re: SCSI Drives / Large Memory Kernel Panic

2007-07-16 Thread Shawn Badger
I wonder then if the SCSI card that doesn't work has a fixed IO address that happens to fall within a memory address above 2 gig and you start having problems when ever that space is touched. I am just totally shooting in the dark, but it may be just that. On 7/16/07, Steven Wagner <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: SCSI Drives / Large Memory Kernel Panic

2007-07-16 Thread Steven Wagner
Shawn Badger wrote: > I am guessing it may be some bad memory. I know that CentSO can > support much more than 4 Gig of memory. Get something like the system > rescue cd and do a memory test to see if it makes it through. Also, I forgot to say that I tested the RAM with UBCD's memtest86+. Only a pa

Re: SCSI Drives / Large Memory Kernel Panic

2007-07-16 Thread Steven Wagner
Shawn Badger wrote: > I am guessing it may be some bad memory. I know that CentSO can > support much more than 4 Gig of memory. Get something like the system > rescue cd and do a memory test to see if it makes it through. > > Also, remove the old 2 gig of memory and see if it works in that > config

Re: SCSI Drives / Large Memory Kernel Panic

2007-07-16 Thread Shawn Badger
I am guessing it may be some bad memory. I know that CentSO can support much more than 4 Gig of memory. Get something like the system rescue cd and do a memory test to see if it makes it through. Also, remove the old 2 gig of memory and see if it works in that configuration. If it does, then you

Re: SCSI Drives / Large Memory Kernel Panic

2007-07-15 Thread Steven Wagner
Technomage-hawke wrote: > this may be a linux specific problem (I cannot be sure unless the results can > be duplicated with other linux distros). > > perhaps trying openBSD or OpenSolaris would work (fully supported for that > much ram and that hardware). > I've tried FreeBSD (and several ot

Re: SCSI Drives / Large Memory Kernel Panic

2007-07-15 Thread Technomage-hawke
this may be a linux specific problem (I cannot be sure unless the results can be duplicated with other linux distros). perhaps trying openBSD or OpenSolaris would work (fully supported for that much ram and that hardware). TMH On Sunday 15 July 2007 21:57, Steven Wagner wrote: > I'm trying

SCSI Drives / Large Memory Kernel Panic

2007-07-15 Thread Steven Wagner
I'm trying to upgrade a server from 2 GB of registered ECC RAM to 4 GB. The extra RAM was specifically purchased from the manufacturer to be identical to the existing modules. After installing the extra RAM the server panic'ed so we tried installing some other kernels, even enabling huge mem (64 bi