From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 08:17:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C593E16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from convex.cs.unb.ca (convex.cs.unb.ca [131.202.244.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E34043D09 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:17:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bremner@convex.cs.unb.ca) Received: from bremner by convex.cs.unb.ca with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1AUpzD-0000vg-OI for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:17:51 -0400 Received: by convex.cs.unb.ca (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1266); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:17:51 -0400 (AST) Received: from bremner (helo=convex.cs.unb.ca.unb.ca) by convex.cs.unb.ca with local-esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1AUpzC-0000vU-QE for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:17:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:17:50 -0400 Message-ID: <0t4qw61041.wl@nohost.unb.ca> To: current@freebsd.org Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <20031127060730.GB24980@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20031114080021.L3913@gamplex.bde.org> <20031127144834.Y77022@gamplex.bde.org> <20031127060730.GB24980@dan.emsphone.com> Gmane-From: bremner@unb.ca User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 14) (Reasonable Discussion) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: David Bremner X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.87 (Carry Back) X-TMDA-Fingerprint: Dc2bdIxnncEriomGTa51v2SEzvM X-Primary-Address: bremner@unb.ca Sender: David Bremner Subject: Re: atapicam broken by ata_lowlevel.c rev.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Bremner List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:17:54 -0000 At Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:07:30 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Nov 27), Bruce Evans said: > > [Resending due to no response after 2 weeks.] > > > > Rev.1.23 of ata-lowlevel.c broke atapicam on my BP6 system as shown > > by the enclosed boot -v messages (the system just hangs, apparently > > waiting for a disk interrupt that never arrives; there seems to be no > > timeout). > > If it's any consolation: "me too" :) Backing out 1.23 worked for me as > well. The system that I saw the hang on isn't SMP. I also > pre-emptively patched another SMP system before I had to drive in to > fix it if it hung. > I just wanted to report that my boot hang problems (which were "cured" by reverting to revision 1.22 of ata-lowlevel.c) have gone away with 5.2-RC1; more precisely with 5.2-CURRENT of Dec. 10. All the best, db