Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 10:32:51 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: garman@phs.k12.ar.us Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CMD640b ide controller bug workarounds? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970124103132.20976A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970124204017.garman@jason.garman.net>
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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Jason Garman wrote: > Does anyone have one of these lame ide controllers? These things, in > addition to having the rz1000 flaws, also freeze the machine when both ide > channels are accessed on the machine. Is there any chance for a > workaround in the FreeBSD wdc driver? I have a nice 2 gig drive sitting > here spinning its heads for nothing :-( > > I tried doing some modifications myself, but as the extraordinary novice > kernel hacker I am, I only got it to hang the specific process doing the > disk access, not the entire machine. A little improvement, I guess :-/ > > L*nux has an option `hda=serialize' to do this. Is there any chance > FreeBSD could have an CMD640B_SUCKS_ROCKS_SERIALIZE_REQUESTS option in the > kernel config file? > > Thanks, > -- > Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ > Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.us > > Considering that a perfectly good, brand new EIDE controller with primary and secondary, and dual 16550 UARTs, and printer for $50, why bother? Tom
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