From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 27 17:28:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA04414 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:28:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA04388 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sendero.i-connect.net ([206.190.144.100]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA26727 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 12:56:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21759 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jan 1997 05:09:19 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 21:06:30 -0800 (PST) Organization: iConnect Corp. From: Simon Shapiro To: garman@phs.k12.ar.us Subject: RE: CMD640b ide controller bug workarounds? Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, (Jason Garman) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Jason Garman; On 25-Jan-97 you wrote: > Does anyone have one of these lame ide controllers? These things, in > addition to having the rz1000 flaws, also freeze the machine when both ide > channels are accessed on the machine. Is there any chance for a > workaround in the FreeBSD wdc driver? I have a nice 2 gig drive sitting > here spinning its heads for nothing :-( > > I tried doing some modifications myself, but as the extraordinary novice > kernel hacker I am, I only got it to hang the specific process doing the > disk access, not the entire machine. A little improvement, I guess :-/ > > L*nux has an option `hda=serialize' to do this. Is there any chance > FreeBSD could have an CMD640B_SUCKS_ROCKS_SERIALIZE_REQUESTS option in the > kernel config file? Linux also hasa specific RZ100 option, if I am not mistaken. Simon