Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:41:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Cc: mjacob@feral.com, sos@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: workaround for ata driver woes on alpha Message-ID: <199910181741.TAA99649@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <14347.23151.744866.110836@grits.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Oct 18, 1999 01:38:57 pm"
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It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Søren Schmidt writes: > > > > 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 ATA > > disk is going to respond with an interrupt after the timeout happend, > > but its not impossible. > > May I commit the hz fix? > Sure. > > > Soren- this is your stuff isn't it- what have we misunderstood? > > > > 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 > might have a real fix. I'll pass it along after we test it. OK, I'll take a look at it, but no promises :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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