Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:35:30 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: Does your Alpha run a SMPng kernel? Message-ID: <XFMail.001110113530.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011101125370.83354-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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On 10-Nov-00 Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >> >> Matthew Jacob writes: >> > >> > 'ata' timeouts occur with abandon during probing PC164 or on XP1000. >> >> Does the ata device ever recover? Neither if_fxp or if_dc ever >> recover. After the first timeout, they're gone for good. > > Sometimes, but often not because the ata driver can't attach, e.g.: > > ata0-master: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > ata0-master: identify failed That is either a bogus interrupt coming in or no interrupt coming in. Sticking a printf in the ata interrupt handler to confirm would be useful. It might be that we get the first interrupt ok and don't properly re-enable the source afterwards. Is there a chance we aren't sending an EOI to the PIC? >> This makes me think its some fundimental problem, like leaving an >> interrupt disabled or something. > > See separate mail to you about this. > -matt -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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