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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:42:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: Timecounters and 5.2
Message-ID:  <20040127104038.X15307@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040125194504.GA24783@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
References:  <BAY13-F31qHCnIbxgg80000e277@hotmail.com> <20040125194504.GA24783@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Ken Smith wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:03:10AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
>
> > Taking a look at my system, this is where the ATA and firewire probe
> > happens. I've had hangs here if interrupts are broken. Its likely that
> > ACPI on your system has bogus routing information and this causes ATA to
> > hang.
>
> In case it helps at all, pluto2 (ia64 reference machine on the cluster)
> might be doing the same thing.  For a kernel built Jan 22nd it
> wedges right after the timecounter messages.  For a kernel built
> Jan 20th it seems to boot fine.  The messages immediately after the
> timecounter messages for a successful boot are the ATA-attached DVD
> drive.

Hm. Soren committed some changes to the driver on the 19th (UTC) which
fixed some timeout issues. What rev of ata-all.c does the two kernels
have?  Actually just get all the revs for all the ata files for doc
purposes. :)

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