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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:28:31 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA not quite peachy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903041228060.29395-100000@zone.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903032327230.310-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com>

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SoftUpdates on my LS-120? I'm not a masochist!!

 Brian Feldman					  _ __  ___ ___ ___  
 green@unixhelp.org			      _ __ ___ | _ ) __|   \ 
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On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Oi! If you have softupdates on the LS120 drive, be aware that soft updates
> has been known to have odd behaviour with some drive types (e.g. IDE
> drives in 1-(non-multiblock) block mode, and floppy drives. I wouldn't be
> surprised if LS120 drives had the capacity to confuse softupdates..
> 
> julian
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Brian Feldman wrote:
> 
> > After testing out the new ATA drivers, I've only got a single problem. My
> > box locked up while accessing the LS-120 (and, seemingly, swapping):
> > 
> > Mar  4 00:20:02 green /kernel: atapi_transfer: bad command phase
> > Mar  4 00:20:33 green /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device:
> > 0x20019, blkno: 2800, size: 8192
> > 
> > I think what was going on was a second read transfer was trying to occur
> > while one was already going, and something wrong happened with the code or
> > bus, with the drive light staying on, so the swapper timed out trying to
> > access the hdd.
> > 
> > Hope someone can help with this; for now I'm using the old wd/wfd/acd.
> > 
> > The current system:
> > Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
> > Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> >         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #65: Wed Mar  3 19:31:00 EST 1999
> >     green@green.dyn.ez-ip.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/FELDMAN
> > Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> > CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (300.68-MHz 586-class CPU)
> >   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x58c  Stepping=12
> >   Features=0x8021bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX>
> > real memory  = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
> > avail memory = 62337024 (60876K bytes)
> > Bad DMI table checksum!
> > Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xf02b2000.
> > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> > chip0: <AcerLabs M1541 (Aladdin-V) PCI host bridge> rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0
> > chip1: <AcerLabs M5243 PCI-PCI bridge> rev 0x04 on pci0.1.0
> > ohci0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB Host Controller> rev 0x03 int a irq
> > 10 on
> >  pci0.2.0
> > usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
> > alpm0: <AcerLabs M15x3 Power Management Unit> rev 0x00 on pci0.3.0
> > chip2: <AcerLabs M1533 portable PCI-I-ISA bridge> rev 0xb4 on pci0.7.0
> > ata-pci0: <Acer Aladdin IV/V IDE controller> rev 0x20 int a irq 0 on
> > pci0.15.0
> > ata0 at 0x01f0 irq 14 on ata-pci0
> > ata1 at 0x0170 irq 15 on ata-pci0
> > vga0: <S3 ViRGE DX/GX graphics accelerator> rev 0x01 int a irq 0 on
> > pci0.18.0
> > Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
> > Probing for PnP devices:
> > Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
> > sc0 on isa
> > sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
> > atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
> > atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
> > psm0 irq 12 on isa
> > psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
> > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
> > sio0: type 16550A
> > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
> > sio1: type 16550A
> > ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 drq 3 on isa
> > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/1 bytes threshold
> > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
> > lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
> > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> > ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
> > lppps0: <Pulse per second Timing Interface> on ppbus 0
> > fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
> > sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa
> > snd0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
> > sbxvi0 at drq 6 on isa
> > snd0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
> > sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa
> > snd0: <SoundBlaster MPU-401>
> > opl0 at 0x388 on isa
> > snd0: <Yamaha OPL3 FM>
> > joy0 at 0x201 on isa
> > joy0: joystick
> > vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
> > npx0 on motherboard
> > npx0: INT 16 interface
> > apm0 on isa
> > apm: found APM BIOS version 1.2
> > usb0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB Host Controller>
> > uhub0 at usb0
> > uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> > alsmb0: <Aladdin IV/V/Pro2 SMBus controller>
> > smbus0: <System Management Bus> on alsmb0
> > smb0: <SMBus general purpose I/O> on smbus0
> > IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding
> > enabled,
> > default to accept, logging disabled
> > DUMMYNET initialized (980901) -- size dn_pkt 48
> > ad0: <Maxtor 71626 AP/QA3C1D20> ATA-? disk at ata0 as master
> > ad0: 1554MB (3184170 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> > ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue
> > ad3: <Maxtor 71626 AP/QA3C1D20> ATA-? disk at ata1 as slave
> > ad3: 1554MB (3184170 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> > ad3: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue
> > acd0: <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:285/3.04> CDROM drive at ata0 as slave
> > acd0: drive speed 2067KB/sec, 128KB cache
> > acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-DA
> > acd0: Audio: play, 16 volume levels
> > acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray
> > acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked
> > afd0: <LS-120 COSM 02 UHD Floppy/0271C09T> rewriteable drive at ata1 as
> > master
> > afd0: 120MB (246528 sectors), 963 cyls, 8 heads, 32 S/T, 512 B/S
> > afd0: Unknown media (0x0)
> > changing root device to ad0s1a
> > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> > ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates
> > ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates
> > ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates
> > 
> >  Brian Feldman					  _ __  ___ ___ ___  
> >  green@unixhelp.org			      _ __ ___ | _ ) __|   \ 
> > 	     http://www.freebsd.org/	 _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) |
> >  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!	   _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ 
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