Andreas Barth wrote: > [please Cc me, I'm currently not subscribed.] > I have noticed that one of my boxes stopped to boot correctly after > adding more memory (in total 6 GB) and loading an adjusted kernel for > that. After some testing around, we noticed that it is enough for the > kernel to boot correctly if we limit the kernel to use 4GB of memory. > > If the kernel has 6GB, I directly get error messages like: > SCSI device sda: 143299800 512-byte hdwr sectors (73369 MB) > sda: Write Protect is off > sda: got wrong page > sda: assuming drive cache: write through > SCSI device sda: 143299800 512-byte hdwr sectors (73369 MB) > sda: Write Protect is off > sda: got wrong page This is from sd.c::sd_read_cache_type > Any hints for me how I can use the full 6 GB of memory (and/or what I > should try out to find the bug)? Please change the printk in sd.c around 1482 that is printk(KERN_ERR "%s: got wrong page\n", diskname); to printk(KERN_ERR "%s: got wrong page (expect: 0x%x, got 0x%x)\n", diskname, modepage, buffer[offset]); so we can see at least the reason that made it finally fail. Eike - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
