Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:49:03 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will+freebsd-current@will.iki.fi> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?b?U/hyZW4=?= Schmidt <sos@DeepCore.dk> Subject: Re: ATA driver races with interrupts Message-ID: <20040802134903.lxnkgosco4ccck0s@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <410E7B8B.3080407@will.iki.fi> References: <410E688D.7020709@will.iki.fi> <410E74F7.1070000@will.iki.fi> <20040802132802.3d7kgoow0c80ss0s@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <410E7B8B.3080407@will.iki.fi>
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Quoting Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will+freebsd-current@will.iki.fi>: > Kenneth Culver wrote: > >> I have this exact same motherboard, but I'm using the onboard >> promise controller >> set up with 2 disks as a raid0, and I'm not having any problems with this >> setup. I used the promise controller because from what I've been told, the >> promise controllers are very fast in FreeBSD compared to other controllers. > > If the two disks appear as one to FreeBSD, the problem probably isn't > going to show up. > > It may also depend on the controller, since the channel registers might > not satisfy the conditions in ata_generic_interrupt (I didn't bother > digging up my ATA specs while debugging this), but even if it is a > controller oddity, I don't think the ATA driver should be sensitive such > conditions. OK, I've never tried to access the SATA drives individually, even though they show up as individual drives as well as showing up as the raid array. Ken
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