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Date:      Thu, 6 May 2004 14:05:42 +0200
From:      Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        S?ren Schmidt <sos@DeepCore.dk>
Subject:   Re: ATA_FLUSHCACHE failing
Message-ID:  <20040506120541.GA1131@laptop.6bone.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20040506212202.O19882@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20040505195425.GA2559@laptop.6bone.nl> <409948A7.1040100@DeepCore.dk> <20040506212202.O19882@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:36:31PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Panic dumps cannot use either device interrupts or timeouts, not to
> mention normal locks, since panics may occur in almost any context;
> in particular they may occur with all interrupts masked and important
> locks in a bad state.  Immediate mode must be used, but it doesn't
> seem to be, and a comment says that it is only used for other things:

My eye felt on the same code and comments!

But if this is indeed the problem, why isn't everyone experiencing this
issue?

Stated differently, are there problems with using ATA_IMMEDIATE_MODE?

Mark



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