From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 21 9:13:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dead-end.net (dead-end.net [216.15.131.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E3B152E8 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:13:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rock@dead-end.net) Received: from dead-end.net (p3E9C37AB.dip.t-dialin.net [62.156.55.171]) by dead-end.net (8.9.3/DEAD-END/1999102300-Deliver) with ESMTP id SAA30834 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:13:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rock@dead-end.net) Message-ID: <385FA720.FAC2CB0E@dead-end.net> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:13:20 +0100 From: "D. Rock" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI References: <199912211700.SAA13589@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message