From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 21 9: 0:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EB7154B3 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:00:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13589 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:00:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:00:30 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912211700.SAA13589@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote in list.freebsd-current: > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: > > > The solution for me was to recompile the kernel without AUTO_EOI1 and > > > AUTO_EOI2. > > > > Those options newer worked (for me at least) reliably with anything, could > > those that are seeing the hangs please check this ?? > > Although this isn't immediately related to ATA, I've found that Intel > L440GX+ boards *hate* AUTO_EOI_2 when running SMP. They freeze going into > multiuser mode. Took me quite a while to figure that out. I have always been using AUTO_EOI_1, but _not_ AUTO_EOI_2, and it has always worked very well. The comment in LINT about AUTO_EOI_2 sounds pretty suspicous, so I never even tried it: "it works for some clones and some integrated versions." That sounds to me like "it works on a very limited set of hardware (and if you're lucky)." AUTO_EOI_1 seems to be fine, though. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message