From owner-freebsd-alpha  Wed Oct 20  8:57:52 1999
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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: workaround for ata driver woes on alpha
In-Reply-To: <14348.55807.415236.565105@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Oct 19, 1999 04:57:48 pm"
To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
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Cc: erik@habatech.no (Erik H. Bakke), alpha@FreeBSD.ORG,
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It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> I finally got around to testing it & it seems to work.  The appended
> patch is  courtesy of Darrell Anderson (anderson@cs.duke.edu).
> 
> I believe Matt's suggestion is probably the real fix.
> 
> Also, we've seen this problem (albeit rarely) on PCs under extreme
> load as well.  (450MHz PIII, 2 promise cards, 4 22GB IBM Deskstar drive as each
> channel's primary master, sinking data to/from a gigabit link to a
> number of clients)

OK, I'll take a look at it, I'm currently buzy at freebsdcon, so it might
be a couble of days until then, but anyhow I have a number of other
fixes that I need to test in my lab back home too...

-Søren


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