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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:38:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        sos@freebsd.dk
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, sos@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: workaround for ata driver woes on alpha
Message-ID:  <14347.23151.744866.110836@grits.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199910181714.TAA00441@tuden.freebsd.dk>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910180702290.14549-100000@semuta.feral.com> <199910181714.TAA00441@tuden.freebsd.dk>

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S=F8ren Schmidt writes:
 >=20
 > Well, the problem is that I didn't use hz to get the right timeout (=
there
 > the patch is correct) I missed that one sorry.
 > There could be a window problem, but it is highly unlikely that an A=
TA
 > disk is going to respond with an interrupt after the timeout happend=
,
 > but its not impossible.=20

May I commit the hz fix?

<...>

 > > Soren- this is your stuff isn't it- what have we misunderstood?
 >=20
 > This all needs more thought, I've just not had the time yet to do
 > more about it. Hopefully when I return from FreeBSDCon I'm have a
 > little more time for this...

We (a grad student here & I ) talked about this at lunch.  We think we=20=

might have a real fix.  I'll pass it along after we test it.

Drew

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