Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:54:46 +0100 (CET) From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, jjramsey@pobox.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Semirandom bug in FreeBSD's ATA querying Message-ID: <200301121854.h0CIskmI050144@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <3E21B764.6070200@unixdaemons.com>
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It seems Hiten Pandya wrote: > --- 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. That option was for something entirely different and is not applicable to the ATA driver... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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