Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:51:47 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Prefetch Mode... (was: VIA crashes) Message-ID: <20020108225147.A695@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <200201082116.g08LGW761437@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:16:32PM -0800 References: <20020108191800.A1154@tisys.org> <200201082116.g08LGW761437@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:16:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon stood up and spoke: > I'm CCing Soren to make sure he sees this. > > This is good news! It indeed is! However, I'm doing some more testing before I say that disabling IDE Prefetch along with using Soren's 686B patch is the ultimate solution. Whatever the low-level technical reason for the problem is, it is highly strange. It's not really random, but it either *doesn't happen, or it will happen at a *definite*, predictable point. I could verify this both for the NFS crash you were looking at as well as with today's crash. As I have said on multiple purposes, I guess my mainboard's BIOS is a little more messed up than what is supposed to be standard ;-) This can also be seen by the fact that I need to put some light load on my hard disk in order to get an acceptably smoothly-moving picture from my TV capture card (though Soren's fix has acceptably fixed this problem by now, which I really appreciate!) Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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