Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:00:54 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Found a Fix (was: Is aha broken?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905141941080.58155-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <199905142301.RAA37025@harmony.village.org>
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Today Warner Losh wrote:
> : I installed 3.2-19990514-BETA onto another box today and ran into
> : the same thing.
>
> Dang. :-(
You're much more mellow than I am Warner. My comment involved
sexual activity and a parent of the female persuation. :)
> : The all powerful DELAY(10000) fixes it for both of my boxes. :)
>
> Cool. I can't find anything in the docs that would explain why this
> delay is needed. Did you try the less powerful DELAY(1000) or
> DELAY(100)?
No, but I will. ..... OK, 1000 works but 100 doesn't.
> 10mS is a long time to spin in the kernel (granted, it is
> only on the probe,
"only on the probe" was why I didn't bother to try anything
shorter.
> but there are moves afoot to make that happen at any time
> now).
That I didn't know about.
> There were similar delays in the old aha driver, but I seem to recall
> they were in different locations.
The only place I see them on my 2.2.6 box is within loops. When
the printf `fixed' this I did remember the one in this version
for ..... (Alt-F1) the the geometry register in the 1542B.
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