From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 08:17:56 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 AC12816A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:17:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D5843D35 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:17:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUpzE-0003wd-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:17:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUpzD-0003wV-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:17:51 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUpzD-0006g7-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:17:51 +0100 From: bremner@unb.ca Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:17:50 -0400 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <0t4qw61041.wl@nohost.unb.ca> References: <20031114080021.L3913@gamplex.bde.org> <20031127144834.Y77022@gamplex.bde.org> <20031127060730.GB24980@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <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) Sender: news 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 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 16:17:56 -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