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Date:      Tue, 05 Mar 1996 11:52:56 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler), stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-( 
Message-ID:  <199603051952.LAA18831@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Mar 1996 11:12:04 MST." <199603051812.LAA08681@phaeton.artisoft.com> 

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>> This particular failure, as I mentioned before on the -stable list, is
>> specific to the VESA controller (2842 rev C). It has never occurred with the
>> BT542B and I've established that the "cheap" version (i.e. non-enhanced) of
>> the Amd486DX4 that I'm using is only capable of running its internal cache
>> in write-thru mode.
>> 
>> My question is this .. since -stable is presently unusable unless I want to
>> strangle my disk I/O (with news arriving at ~3 articles/second) and -release
>> too buggy for "heavy-duty" use, is -current likely to be any better ?
>
>Obviously your cache is not being updated correctly as a result of
>a DMA completion.
>

Actually this appears to be a bug in eisaconf as it affects all
eisa scsi controllers at the moment.  I'm looking into it, but the
problem is not obvious and doesn't occur in -current.

>
>					Terry Lambert
>					terry@lambert.org
>---
>Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
>or previous employers.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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