Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:29:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com (Brett Glass) Cc: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some solutions to disk problems.... I think. Message-ID: <199604011529.RAA00318@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <9603018283.AA828371256@ccgate.infoworld.com> from "Brett Glass" at Mar 31, 96 08:10:32 pm
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In reply to Brett Glass who wrote: > > Aha! Have found some instructions for writing code that can be incorporated > into the kernel to solve the timeout problem. What timeout problem ?? > ftp://ftp.seagate.com/techsuppt/misc/no_idle.zip > > explains how to disable the timeouts and gives sample code for DOS. (It'd > have to be different for FreeBSD's disk driver.) I will take a stab at > adding some code to my kernel this evening; however, since most low-level > OS code has a "culture" behind it (that is, an unwritten list of ways to do > things and things one shouldn't do at all costs), I'm worried that I'll > violate some unwritten rule and mess everything up. Would someone more > experienced with hacking the FreeBSD kernel be willing to help by looking > over my code and/or incorporating the relevant instructions (it's only > three I/O operations per drive, with pauses between)? Could you be a little more specific ?? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..
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