From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 27 6:15:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (fw-rl0.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1064D37B405; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 06:15:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBREFFl64118; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:15:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <200112271415.fBREFFl64118@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers) In-Reply-To: To: Pete French Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:15:15 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: sos@freebsd.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Pete French wrote: > > Anyhow since this is not always the case I did the fix for -current, > > granted it should not be in the ATA driver, but since nobody else > > really cared at the time.... > > Does this mean that if you dont have the ATA drivers in the kernel then > you wont get the fix ? As the bug occurs under high PCI loads then this > can potentially affect people with large amounts of PCI activity on > SCSI drives too surely ? Granted I've never seen it happen, but it still > bothers me that it might... As far as I'm able to tell, the problem can appear with any PCI device that can generate enough PCI traffic for the bug to appear, or at least my tests points in that direction. However I dont have any SCSI equipment here so I cant tell if that can trigger the problem... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message