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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2000 16:19:25 +0200
From:      Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4-stable won't boot
Message-ID:  <20000525161925.Q2305@speedy.gsinet>
In-Reply-To: <20000525134456.D28056@moose.bri.hp.com>; from steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 01:44:57PM %2B0100
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On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 13:44 +0100, Steve Roome wrote:
> 
> [ ... 'ad(4)' was absent ... ]
> 
> For what it's worth, I had similar problems recently as well,
> although I was getting ata_master: timeout waiting for command
> (from memory), however I did have the ad device, and the
> problem seemed to be related to some sort of conflict that
> appeared only when I had one of the following also in the
> kernel :
> 
> options AUTO_EOI_1
> options AUTO_EOI_2

Referring to LINT the latter won't work everywhere.  But the IDE
controllers do connect to the second (slave) PIC.

I guess saving microseconds for risking stability is a bad idea.
:)  This option(s) will gain only .1% performance gain (if this
much at all) so I wouldn't bother.


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