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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:13:57 +0300 (MSK)
From:      kng@techincom.lipetsk.su
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   kern/2015: 2.2-960801-SNAP kernel wdc driver dosn't recognise multi-sector transfer capability of HDDs
Message-ID:  <199611150713.KAA01179@ghost.techincom.lipetsk.su>
Resent-Message-ID: <199611150750.XAA23172@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         2015
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       2.2-960801-SNAP kernel dosn't recognise multi-sector transfer capability of IDE HDDs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 14 23:50:04 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Konstantin N. Gusenko
>Organization:
Techincom Trading, Lipetsk, Russia
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386
>Environment:

	Tomato 5DXP motherboard, Intel 430FX chipset,
	Pentium-120 CPU,
	2x16550A onboard, primary/secondary IDE onboard
	32M EDO DRAM,
	256k Pipeline Burst Cache,
	S3-Trio64V+ SVGA card with 2M EDO DRAM,
	2 x 1.6 Gb Western Digital WDC-31600 IDE HDDs,
	Goldstar RCD-542B CD-ROM drive,
	Epson Dual 3.5"/5.25" FDD.

        Alternate box:
        
        SIS 496 motherboard,
        AMD 486DX4-100 CPU,
        2x16550A onboard, primary/seciondary IDE onboard,
        16M DRAM,
        256k Cache,
        Trident TVGA-9000 SVGA adapter with 512k DRAM,
        1 x 850M Western Digital WDC-2850 IDE HDD,
        3.5" FDD
	
	Running FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP on both boxes.

>Description:

	At startup kernel doesn't recognise HDDs multi-sector
transfer capability. Kernel config flags for wdc controler have
appropriate settings. This decreases perfomance of system. Previous
SNAP (2.2-960612) works well on this boxes and hadn't such problem. 

        As test, I load GENERIC 2.2-960612-SNAP kernel, and it
succesfully detects and uses multi-sector transfer capability of my
HDDs.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Try boot kernel compiled with this lines in config:

controller	wdc0	at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 \
			flags 0x00ff00ff vector wdintr
disk		wd0	at wdc0 drive 0
disk		wd1	at wdc1	drive 1
	
	or, say "kernel -c" at boot prompt and set "0x00ff" in flags
for wdc controller (in this case kernel must probe only first drive
for multi-sector IO).

>Fix:
	
	I don't know exactly, but, I think this is around probe in
i386/isa/wd.c .

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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