From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 26 22:38:50 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA05711 for current-outgoing; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 22:38:50 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA05704; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 22:38:31 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA09991; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:35:31 +1000 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:35:31 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199503270635.QAA09991@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: davidg@Root.COM, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problem with newfs. Cc: Herve.Soulard@inria.fr, current@FreeBSD.org Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> wd0a: wdstart: timeout waiting for DRQ writing fsbn 304 of 304-319 >>> (wd0 bn 170432; cn 343 tn 9 sn 25) wd0: status 53 >>> error 4 >>> >>> 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). It could also be from reducing a delay from 11 times the spec. to only 2 times. Bruce