Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:38:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: mjacob@feral.com, sos@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: workaround for ata driver woes on alpha Message-ID: <14347.23151.744866.110836@grits.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199910181714.TAA00441@tuden.freebsd.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910180702290.14549-100000@semuta.feral.com> <199910181714.TAA00441@tuden.freebsd.dk>
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Søren Schmidt writes: > > Well, the problem is that I didn't use hz to get the right timeout (there > the patch is correct) I missed that one sorry. > There could be a window problem, but it is highly unlikely that an ATA > disk is going to respond with an interrupt after the timeout happend, > but its not impossible. May I commit the hz fix? <...> > > Soren- this is your stuff isn't it- what have we misunderstood? > > This all needs more thought, I've just not had the time yet to do > more about it. Hopefully when I return from FreeBSDCon I'm have a > little more time for this... We (a grad student here & I ) talked about this at lunch. We think we might have a real fix. I'll pass it along after we test it. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the messagehome | help
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