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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:13:20 +0100
From:      "D. Rock" <rock@dead-end.net>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI
Message-ID:  <385FA720.FAC2CB0E@dead-end.net>
References:  <199912211700.SAA13589@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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Oliver Fromme schrieb:
> 
> 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.
Same for me.

Except for my laptop, which didn't even like AUTO_EOI_1 (which is also
mentioned
in LINT, but noticed it only at 3rd read).

Daniel


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