On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with a new
workstation that has IDE disks, so I thought
Nine'th update to the new ATA/ATAPI driver:
The atapi subsystem has gotten better error handeling and timeouts,
it also tries a REQUEST SENSE command when devices returns errors,
to give a little more info as to what went wrong. It might be a
little verbose for now, but I'm interested in as
I've come across several instances where I need to fiddle with state that
is also touched by a timeout handler. From a naming standpoint,
splsoftclock() sounds like the correct spl routine to use for protecting
these activities. Unfortunately this only holds true if splsoftclock()
is used in a
It seems Neal Westfall wrote:
Trying the updated driver, I notice that the first time I try
to mount the cdrom drive, it hangs, I hit ^C and get this
error:
atapi_error: PREVENT_ALLOW - timeout error = 00
After that, I can mount it fine. This system is all SCSI except
for the cdrom,
It'd be interesting to see where FreeBSD stacks up
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Date: 25 Jun 1999 17:00:02 -0400
From: Ramana Juvvadi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NT vs Linux benchmark saga continues
Hi all,
I did a cvsup on the night of June 24/25, got the world built,
installed, /etc updated, the kernel config file updated, built
the kernel, updated it, and when I attempt to boot, I get the
following error:
.: Out of file descriptors
You copied
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:13:20 MST, Doug wrote:
I can submit patches for the man page(s) if I can get a grip on what's
happening where (and when). :-/ What I'd really like to see is a
chronological listing, like:
I think you're reading the wrong manpage. I've just had a look at
loader(8)
