Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

[rgheck]

Mark Lord wrote:
> rgheck wrote:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > not one problem but lots---is sufficiently widespread that a Mini 
> > > > HOWTO, say, would be really welcome and, I'm guessing, widely used.
> > > >     
> > >
> > > We don't see very many libata problems at the distro level and they for
> > > the most part boil down to
> > >
> > > - sata_nv with >4GB of RAM, knowing being worked on, no old IDE driver
> > > anyway
> > >   
> > Is this >4GB or >=4GB? I've seen contradictory reports, and I've got 
> > 4GB.
> ..
>
> For all practical purposes, most memory over 3GB (or sometimes even 2GB)
> on a 32-bit x86 system is treated as >4GB by the motherboard.
>
> Because it's not the amount of *memory* that matters so much,
> but rather the amount of *used address space*.  Video cards,
> PCI devices, other motherboard resources etc.. can all subtract
> from the available address space, leaving much less than 4GB
> for your RAM.

Right. So it looks like I do have this issue, though I haven't seen any 
actual problems on 24. Is there a known workaround?

rh

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