From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 18 18:59:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF9637B400 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0242.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.242] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16yNgA-0007Yo-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:59:14 -0700 Message-ID: <3CBF79C8.FBC8F466@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:58:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: msch@snafu.de Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA errors on recent -current References: <200204181551.g3IFp6F2048629@freebsd.dk> <3CBEEC41.7C58CB30@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 17:54 schrieb Terry Lambert: > > I wish someone who is having the problem would try the three > > hacks I suggested, and report back. I personally can't reproduce > > the problem here, either. > > So: I changed line 186 in sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c from > > adp->num_tags = atadev->param->queuelen; > > to > > adp->num_tags = 0x10; > > which is roughly the half of the reported queuelenght (which is 0x1F). > > And, Terry, I can't avoid to disappoint you... there's absolutely *no* > change in the behaviour of the new kernel :-( Uh... the "16" you changed to "10" was decimal, so changining it to 0x10 changes it to ... 16. Rather than point out the hex/decimal confusion earlier, that's why I said "/2". > Sorry for the bad news, but... I think, we'll wait for Soren's commit > tonight. Soren's commit is for a -current specific merge. The problems you are seeing supposedly are in RELENG_4, and will probably not be effected... though the commit will provide much better diagnostics than I've suggested. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message