From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 31 8:19: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4415237B419 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mgateway.borderware.com (mgateway.borderware.com [207.236.65.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF55843E70 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@borderware.com) Message-ID: <3D47FF9D.4050803@borderware.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:17:49 -0400 From: Steve Zweep User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020723 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ian Dowse" Cc: Joe@borderware.com, Joplin@borderware.com, "John A. Hengstler" , "E. Jordan Bojar" , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: READ_BIG problems References: <200207252206.aa43155@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian Dowse wrote: > > Could people seeing this and other ATA problems try the patch below? > This should fix some unlikely races that could potentially be > responsible for these problems, though I suspect it will not make > any difference. > > The second part of the patch is a workaround for the "atprq" hangs > on ATAPI tape drives. > > Ian > I never had trouble with READ_BIG, but *did* experience atprq hangs on ATAPI tape drives. These would occur during a tape rewind operation using either "mt rewind" or even "< /dev/rast0". Applying the second part of the patch has fixed the problem. Thanks! - Steve -- Steve Zweep Senior Software Engineer BorderWare Technologies Inc. http://www.borderware.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message