From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Aug 11 01:25:47 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA11067 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 01:25:47 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA11055 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 01:25:30 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA04068; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 10:25:05 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00511; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 10:24:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA07648; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 09:56:54 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508110756.JAA07648@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Temporary Solution ( was Re: FreeBSD Sony CD-ROM driver buggy) To: nate@sneezy.sri.com Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 09:56:54 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org, micke@dynas.se In-Reply-To: <199508101700.LAA26347@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 10, 95 11:00:16 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 651 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > > I went for the quick fix and changed the constant to 2000, and my > corruption went away. Until the real fix comes, should we modify the > driver constant to 2000 to avoid the data corruption problems? There's no such thing like too many options :-), so why not protect it by #ifndef in the driver, and document it in LINT? Perhaps the default delay should be longer (to give people the chance installing from the drive), but everybody's free to tune the driver for himself. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)