From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 24 18:48:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA12679 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:48:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA12673 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:48:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.33] by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.59 #1) id 0vnqQm-0006UK-00; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 10:32:52 -0800 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 10:32:51 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: garman@phs.k12.ar.us cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CMD640b ide controller bug workarounds? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Jason Garman wrote: > Does anyone have one of these lame ide controllers? These things, in > addition to having the rz1000 flaws, also freeze the machine when both ide > channels are accessed on the machine. Is there any chance for a > workaround in the FreeBSD wdc driver? I have a nice 2 gig drive sitting > here spinning its heads for nothing :-( > > I tried doing some modifications myself, but as the extraordinary novice > kernel hacker I am, I only got it to hang the specific process doing the > disk access, not the entire machine. A little improvement, I guess :-/ > > L*nux has an option `hda=serialize' to do this. Is there any chance > FreeBSD could have an CMD640B_SUCKS_ROCKS_SERIALIZE_REQUESTS option in the > kernel config file? > > Thanks, > -- > Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ > Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.us > > Considering that a perfectly good, brand new EIDE controller with primary and secondary, and dual 16550 UARTs, and printer for $50, why bother? Tom