Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 11:52:56 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler), stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-( Message-ID: <199603051952.LAA18831@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Mar 1996 11:12:04 MST." <199603051812.LAA08681@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>> This particular failure, as I mentioned before on the -stable list, is >> specific to the VESA controller (2842 rev C). It has never occurred with the >> BT542B and I've established that the "cheap" version (i.e. non-enhanced) of >> the Amd486DX4 that I'm using is only capable of running its internal cache >> in write-thru mode. >> >> My question is this .. since -stable is presently unusable unless I want to >> strangle my disk I/O (with news arriving at ~3 articles/second) and -release >> too buggy for "heavy-duty" use, is -current likely to be any better ? > >Obviously your cache is not being updated correctly as a result of >a DMA completion. > Actually this appears to be a bug in eisaconf as it affects all eisa scsi controllers at the moment. I'm looking into it, but the problem is not obvious and doesn't occur in -current. > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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