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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>
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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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