Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:43:48 +0000 From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, jjramsey@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Semirandom bug in FreeBSD's ATA querying Message-ID: <3E21B764.6070200@unixdaemons.com>
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--- Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: > Actually, it is indicative of a timing bug, which may be > in either the hardware or the driver but is most likely > in the hardware. Linux and the old FreeBSD driver (wd) > have more compatibility cruft including delays to > support broken drives. Try adding some delays near > the broken command. IIRC, there used to be an IDE_DELAY option in FreeBSD 4.3 (i.e. the wd driver) that was used for working around this problem. It would be good if the 'ad' driver had something like that. -- Hiten Pandya http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hiten@unixdaemons.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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