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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: workaround for ata driver woes on alpha
In-Reply-To: <14347.23151.744866.110836@grits.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Oct 18, 1999 01:38:57 pm"
To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
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It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

Sure.

>  > > 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.

OK, I'll take a look at it, but no promises :)

-Søren


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