Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 21:06:30 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: garman@phs.k12.ar.us Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, (Jason Garman) <garman@jason.garman.net> Subject: RE: CMD640b ide controller bug workarounds? Message-ID: <XFMail.970124210919.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970124204017.garman@jason.garman.net>
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Hi Jason Garman; On 25-Jan-97 you 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? Linux also hasa specific RZ100 option, if I am not mistaken. Simon
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