From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 19 5:27:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B722837B409 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 05:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17KeYr-0007tG-00; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:27:45 +0100 To: sos@freebsd.dk, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA tags bug fix committed to -releng4 In-Reply-To: <200206191203.g5JC3A7L029164@freebsd.dk> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:27:45 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > As the patch was interrupt/splx() related, could this have been the cause > > of the random lockups/hangs people have been seeing? > > I dont think so, this should always lead to a disk timeout... Its an interesting point though - as I discovered that my random hangs went away when I removed the ATA drivers from the kernel. I did this because the ATA cntroller was sharing an interrupt with the SCSI controller that was hanging, but afterwards it occurred to me that the hanging started round about the time the new ATA code went in. If I had the time I would compile in the new code and see if it fixes the problem, though not in the next few days. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message