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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:31:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Erik H. Bakke" <erik@habatech.no>
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: workaround for ata driver woes on alpha
Message-ID:  <XFMail.991021103144.erik@habatech.no>
In-Reply-To: <199910201557.RAA53649@freebsd.dk>

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On 20-Oct-99 Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>> 
>> I finally got around to testing it & it seems to work.  The appended
>> patch is  courtesy of Darrell Anderson (anderson@cs.duke.edu).
>> 
>> I believe Matt's suggestion is probably the real fix.
>> 
>> Also, we've seen this problem (albeit rarely) on PCs under extreme
>> load as well.  (450MHz PIII, 2 promise cards, 4 22GB IBM Deskstar drive as
>> each
>> channel's primary master, sinking data to/from a gigabit link to a
>> number of clients)
> 
> OK, I'll take a look at it, I'm currently buzy at freebsdcon, so it might
> be a couble of days until then, but anyhow I have a number of other
> fixes that I need to test in my lab back home too...
> 
Also, the patch has been tested on my 164SX for a couple of days, under heavy
disk load, and it seems to be quite stable.

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