From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 30 15:32:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA13880 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:32:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA13852 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:32:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdstab@shadows.aeon.net) Received: (from bsdstab@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id BAA26546; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:35:00 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199711302335.BAA26546@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: ide bus mastering In-Reply-To: from Doug Russell at "Nov 28, 97 04:23:09 pm" To: drussell@saturn-tech.com (Doug Russell) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:35:00 +0200 (EET) Cc: jayrich@room101.sysc.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On the other hand, I don't know of any cases where the DMA driver messed > up either, so perhaps we could all get together and make a decision as to > whether it is "good" enough to go into -stable yet. i dunno which one it was, probably rather my drive... last wednesday my wd34000 udma and asus tx97-e fell over for some unknown reason. what i had after that was mostly just files listed as inodes on all filesystems that i had running at the moment... since i lost parts of /dev and all /var (not /var/mail or /var/log which are separate silesystems) there wasnt much left i could boot up... good for me, things like /usr /usr/ports /usr/src all live in other filesystems, and /home too (lost parts of it also, no big deal) ofcourse, i recovered easily, took new drive, had to install 2.2.2 into it, didnt have other cdroms available, and then copied my -current leftovers over it. booted up as -current in less than an hour. facts: 1. i dont like wd34000, the drive i had acted strangely few times 2. i was running on 83MHz bus speed, i never slow that down 3. i was running filesystems async,noatime so basicly, i asked to blow up my filesystem, and i'm in no way saying it was the dma code. oh yeah, more facts: 5. i'm getting few small scsi drives, i'm sick of eide =) 6. i didnt lose anything i'd miss mickey