Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:59:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: workaround for ata driver woes on alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910181059020.14549-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199910181714.TAA00441@tuden.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Matthew Jacob wrote: > > No, lengthening the timeout, while possibly correct for trying to achie= ve > > the same length of timeout on alpha as in i386, will *never* solve wind= ow > > problems- it just makes them more infrequent which is, in fact, far mor= e > > dangerous to an OS than the outright panic (why? Think about it- if you > > make a problem just *rare* instead of really going away, you curse the > > platform it occurs on with an aura of unreliabilty so that people are j= ust > > too uneasy to depend on it...)..... >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 A window is a window. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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