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Date:      Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:42:13 -0500
From:      Douglas Egan <degan@calcon.net>
To:        clemensF <rabat@web.de>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: microuptime() went backwards
Message-ID:  <3B983405.BDE54121@calcon.net>
References:  <20010830060127.L19000@spotteswoode.yi.org> <20010831111324.A57354@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010901002955.C708@spotteswoode.yi.org> <3B92EC6D.6CC4BCD0@calcon.net>

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Using ABit KT7A-Raid MoBo.  Drives on HPT370 are ad4 and ad6.

I can get this to happen as soon as I access my drives on the HPT370 ATA
bus.  I am using 2 Western Digital 60G ATA-100 drives.  I am configuring
a vinum mirror on them.  As soon as I 'newfs -v /dev/vinum/mirror' the
messages start coming out.  It is not just a vinum problem, as it
happened when I wasn't running vinum.  Accessing the drives with vinum
is a guarantee of getting it to happen.

I am going to remove APM from the kernel to see if it goes away.  Is the
comment from a June 28, 2000 post to 'FreeBSD-stable' true? 

" > I explained this to you at Usenix, actually.  It has nothing to do
with 
> APM, it has to do with the selection of clocks available with/without APM 
> compiled into the kernel - there is probably either a bug in the TSC 
> hardware on this CPU, or (more likely) a bug in the timecounter code 
> (since people see this on !APM systems already).

s/TSC hardware/i8254 hardware/

(the TSC is disabled when APM is compiled in, and this forces the use of 
the i8254)

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