From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 27 7:27:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5988E37B41A; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 07:27:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBRFRU418518; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:27:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:27:30 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: Pete French , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers) Message-ID: <20011227162730.B18482@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200112271415.fBREFFl64118@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112271415.fBREFFl64118@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:15:15PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:15:15PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Pete French wrote: > > > Anyhow since this is not always the case I did the fix for -current, > > > granted it should not be in the ATA driver, but since nobody else > > > really cared at the time.... > > > > Does this mean that if you dont have the ATA drivers in the kernel then > > you wont get the fix ? As the bug occurs under high PCI loads then this > > can potentially affect people with large amounts of PCI activity on > > SCSI drives too surely ? Granted I've never seen it happen, but it still > > bothers me that it might... > > As far as I'm able to tell, the problem can appear with any PCI device > that can generate enough PCI traffic for the bug to appear, or > at least my tests points in that direction. However I dont have That would (I think) mean that say a Hauppauge TVcard would also be capable to trigger the problem. Esp. when one uses the fxtv capture to disk option. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message