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Date:      Wed, 03 May 2000 10:26:42 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HPDA/DAC960PL errors 
Message-ID:  <200005031726.KAA04073@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 09:39:01 PDT." <200005031639.JAA03930@mass.cdrom.com> 

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> > Well, perhaps not.  Running the old firmware, 2.39, my install of 4.0 fails
> > early on copying files:
> > 
> > bus_dmamap_load : Too many segs!  buf_len = 0x10000
> > mlx0 : I/O error -- attempt to write beyond end of drive
> > 
> > Any idea what these mean?
> 
> The 2.x firmware only supports a very small number of scatter/gather 
> segments (17).  It looks like someone's trying to do a non-page-aligned 
> 64kb transaction there and we're overflowing.  Addressing this is 
> probably going to require a driver patch. 8(

Ok.  I know how I'm going to have to deal with this; the problem is that 
we only use 16 of the 17 available S/G segments (so I can pack the S/G 
tables without crossing page boundaries).  This is going to take a little 
while to implement, unfortunately.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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