Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 15:10:57 +0100 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: Steve Rose <rose@dml.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1 Release seems to corrupt my root partition Message-ID: <199512271410.AA14208@Sysiphos> In-Reply-To: Steve Rose <rose@dml.com> "2.1 Release seems to corrupt my root partition" (Dec 23, 20:56)
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On Dec 23, 20:56, Steve Rose wrote: } Subject: 2.1 Release seems to corrupt my root partition } This hardware runs Windows 95, NT, and Linux without a problem. The } changer works too, BTW. ;-) } } Early in the life of the NCR driver, there was a problem with interupts } being delivered to the driver during shutdown. Is there any chance this } could be similar? Just pure speculation. Any ideas? Hmm, there was a problem with the driver being programmed to support a polled mode, where no interrupts were required. We found that many people never noticed, that the driver was operating in a very limited mode, since it was much faster than an AH1542 anyway :) But the final sync failed, since timers had been stopped at that point in the shutdown process, and polling didn't work anymore. Other than this, there shouldn't be such problems with the NCR driver ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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