Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:25:24 -0500
From:      garman@jason.garman.net (Jason Garman)
To:        nadav@cs.technion.ac.il (Nadav Eiron)
Cc:        helbig@BA-Stuttgart.De (Wolfgang Helbig), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CMD640b flaw workaround
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970204152524.garman@jason.garman.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.970204210307.29771A-100000@csd>; from Nadav Eiron on Feb 4, 1997 21:09:42 %2B0200
References:  <199702040835.JAA26420@amadeus.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.970204210307.29771A-100000@csd>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Nadav Eiron writes:
> I tried installing the patches on my troubled 2.1.5R system, and it
> doesn't cure my problem. I think I should describe my problem once again,
> as it's not the classical CMD640 bug. I have a machine with a hard disk
> (Quantum FireBall) and a CD (Creative x4), both on the primary channel.
> The problem is that CD access is unreliable. It's most commonly seen when
> I try to serve a CD directly via apache. Under heavy load, some of the
> Apace processes will hang while accessing the CD like so:
> 
That's weird.  You're right, the patch won't fix this.  I have a CD and hd
on my first channel, and it works fine here...

I know this isn't a really good `solution,' but how about switching the cd
onto the second channel?

Enjoy,
-- 
Jason Garman                             http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/
Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School                 garman@phs.k12.ar.us



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Mutt.19970204152524.garman>