Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 22:20:30 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: green@unixhelp.org, sos@freebsd.dk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA and afd (LS-120): got it WORKING! Message-ID: <199905181220.WAA13826@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> If its just that you are unsatisfied with only max 32K transfers, thats >> another matter, and stuff for later changes. > >No, it does not work at all with that maximum set. I'm using the disk to hold >an FFS filesystem, and mounting it, BTW. See, in the old driver, it limited >the transfer, but it ALSO queued the rest of the transfer. AFD doesn't, and >I can tell this because I get random parts of kernel memory interspersed with >my files (that's the corruption), so I know all of the buffer is not being >filled. You need to queue the rest of the transfer too. This can probably be "fixed" by turning off clustering. Clustering is only a large optimisation for slow disks like ZIPs :-]. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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