Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:49:57 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig <wh@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Workaround for CMD640B flaw Message-ID: <199701051149.MAA21689@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
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Hi, I attached a new disk two the secondary IDE channel as master. The primary channel is used by another disk and an ATAPI-CDROM, both working fine with FreeBSD 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 and -current. Disklabeling and creating the filesystem on the new disk worked fine. But when I started to copy files the system frooze. With the help of FreeBSD-questions I found out, that the cause is the CMD640B-IDE controller, that by design cannot control both channels concurrently. What needs to be done (and apparently is done in Linux) is to serialize the use of the two channels (that is wdc0 and wdc1) I tried a little changing the wd-driver but to no result. Since the CMD640B is used on a lot of motherboards, I think we need a workaround for this chip. May be there is an easy way to serialize? Any tips or help would be appreciated, since this is the first time I meet the kernel source! thanks, Wolfgang Helbig
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