Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:47:41 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux
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To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:38 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>>> btw: I'm cross posting this to lkml and debian-user,... hope nobody
>>> feels offended :-)
>> How much RAM is in your machine? There's a known problem with sata_nv 
>> ADMA with ATAPI devices and over 4GB of RAM.
> Uhm *tadaaa* ... got 4GB ^^
> Ok,.. so If this only applies to ATAPI devices it should be clear why my
> SATA HDDs aren't affected ;)
> 
>> As a temporary workaround, 
>> you can boot with sata_nv.adma=0 on the kernel command line, or limit 
>> your memory with the mem= command line option so that memory over 4GB is 
>> not used.
> Great,.. will have a try tomorrow :-)
> 
> Is this already fixed in git?

Nope, I/we are still trying to figure out how to fix this properly..
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