From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 18 10:39:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B74414E40; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grits.cs.duke.edu (grits.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.36]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA28320; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:38:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grits.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA62568; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:38:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:38:57 -0400 (EDT) To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: mjacob@feral.com, sos@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: workaround for ata driver woes on alpha In-Reply-To: <199910181714.TAA00441@tuden.freebsd.dk> References: <199910181714.TAA00441@tuden.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14347.23151.744866.110836@grits.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org S=F8ren Schmidt writes: >=20 > 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 A= TA > disk is going to respond with an interrupt after the timeout happend= , > but its not impossible.=20 May I commit the hz fix? <...> > > Soren- this is your stuff isn't it- what have we misunderstood? >=20 > 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=20= might have a real fix. I'll pass it along after we test it. Drew -----------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer=09http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallat= in Duke University=09=09=09=09Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science=09=09Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message