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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
cc: Herve Soulard <Herve.Soulard@inria.fr>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Problem with newfs. 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 22:05:44 -0800
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>> wd0a: wdstart: timeout waiting for DRQ writing fsbn 304 of 304-319
>> (wd0 bn 170432; cn 343 tn 9 sn 25) wd0: status 53 <seekdone,index,err>
>> error 4<abort>
>> 
>> The 950210 SNAP worked fine.
>
>&^*()%$#@*!!
>
>This is the second such report.  Thank you for reporting it.  I am
>beginning to get the feeling that something is not altogether kosher
>in the wd driver now! :-(

   John thinks that it is the multi-block I/O code. Apparantly some drives say
they can do it but can't. The solution that will be implemented is a kernel
'flags' option to enable it (disabled my default).

-DG