From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 25 12:17:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 177D237BA0B for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 12:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 23263 invoked by uid 0); 25 May 2000 19:17:29 -0000 Received: from p3e9e7b5d.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.158.123.93) by mail05.rzmi.gmx.net with SMTP; 25 May 2000 19:17:29 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22887 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 25 May 2000 16:19:25 +0200 Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 16:19:25 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4-stable won't boot Message-ID: <20000525161925.Q2305@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <392C98E1.6985F9A2@algonquincollege.com> <200005250335.UAA04703@mass.cdrom.com> <20000525134456.D28056@moose.bri.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000525134456.D28056@moose.bri.hp.com>; from steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 01:44:57PM +0100 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 13:44 +0100, Steve Roome wrote: > > [ ... 'ad(4)' was absent ... ] > > For what it's worth, I had similar problems recently as well, > although I was getting ata_master: timeout waiting for command > (from memory), however I did have the ad device, and the > problem seemed to be related to some sort of conflict that > appeared only when I had one of the following also in the > kernel : > > options AUTO_EOI_1 > options AUTO_EOI_2 Referring to LINT the latter won't work everywhere. But the IDE controllers do connect to the second (slave) PIC. I guess saving microseconds for risking stability is a bad idea. :) This option(s) will gain only .1% performance gain (if this much at all) so I wouldn't bother. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message