Re: Has anyone seen the ATA driver timeout issue again?

[Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:14:00AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:     I think it could still be an issue because I think Hiten actually got it
:     on a vmware drive once, but we've been unable to reproduce the bug
:     well enough to track it down and fix it.
: 
:     I would try again.  Are you seeing it on a workstation or a laptop?

P2-266 Toshiba laptop, IBM Travelstar drive.

:     If you can reproduce the bug definitively and its a small workstation
:     maybe we can arrange a machine swap or something to get the box to one
:     of us who can debug the problem.

That's an idea.  I can't even get through an ISO install, let alone a
buildworld.

I just got another idea.  Since I bought a new drive, thinking mine was
shot, I could try it in another laptop.  I think it should work in an old
Dell about the same year, P2-233.

In one of the past messages, Hiten wrote


        Here's a guess... it might be interesting to see what happens if
	        we increase the DELAY() & timeout in
		ata_lowlevel.c::ata_wait()?

Did that ever happen?

jm
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