Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:17:49 -0400 From: Steve Zweep <steve@borderware.com> To: "Ian Dowse" <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Joe@borderware.com, Joplin@borderware.com, "John A. Hengstler" <john@hei.net>, "E. Jordan Bojar" <fsckd@hotmail.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: READ_BIG problems Message-ID: <3D47FF9D.4050803@borderware.com> References: <200207252206.aa43155@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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Ian Dowse wrote: > > Could people seeing this and other ATA problems try the patch below? > This should fix some unlikely races that could potentially be > responsible for these problems, though I suspect it will not make > any difference. > > The second part of the patch is a workaround for the "atprq" hangs > on ATAPI tape drives. > > Ian > I never had trouble with READ_BIG, but *did* experience atprq hangs on ATAPI tape drives. These would occur during a tape rewind operation using either "mt rewind" or even "< /dev/rast0". Applying the second part of the patch has fixed the problem. Thanks! - Steve -- Steve Zweep Senior Software Engineer BorderWare Technologies Inc. http://www.borderware.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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