Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:55:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Jason Garman <garman@phs.k12.ar.us> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cmd640 ide controller & freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961217215226.8400D-100000@phs.k12.ar.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961213114355.635A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
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(fyi, this was the 'successful install' thread...) On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > When you say "die" do you mean the machine locks up and the drive lights > stays on then it sounds (to me) like the CMD640 bug. Is your CD on a > different EIDE channel than the hard disk? If so, you should know that if > your EIDE controller is CMD640 based then you have a good chance of > hanging up FreeBSD when accessing devices on more than one channel. If > you can move the CD to be on the same controller as the hard disk, and > use only those two devices it should probably work. > Now that you bring that up, I'm struggling with that exact same problem. I have this nice new 2gig drive which is right now on my second channel and locks up my freebsd system any time i try to access it... My feeble attempts at trying to serialize requests in the kernel only resulted in the processes freezing that try to access the second disk, a slight improvement, i guess :-) but, does anyone have a solution to this??? I'd rather not get another ide controller just for this drive... -- Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.us
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