Hello,

sorry for the large amount of files in my last mail, which will be 
outdated by this mail. Had I only read a little bit further on the 
bugzilla page.

Robert Hancock wrote:
> There is a known problem with ATAPI devices on CK804 chipsets
> which have memory above the 4GB mark, being debugged here:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351451

There is a second patch on this bugzilla page which I did not see 
in the first place.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=254191

This patch gives me a working 2.6.24-rc1-git10 kernel WITH adma and 
with the full 8GB of RAM. See the attached dmesg text file below.

>
> If you are running into that one you can workaround it for now
> by passing the adma=0 parameter to the sata_nv module (not sure
> how this would be done on Suse's setup) or pass sata_nv.adma=0
> on the kernel command line if sata_nv is built into the kernel.
> If that does help, I could ask you to test patches :-)

Obviously there is no need for more patches to get the drive 
working. I will probably just use that working kernel after some 
testing. And if I get to know that the patch gets upstream, then I 
will probably use 2.6.24 when it is finished.

If there are more patches to test on this problem please let me 
hear. Now I have a setup that makes testing a patch taking a lot 
less time than before.

Thanks for the help,

Bernd Strieder