Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE

From: Drew Tomlinson (drew_at_mykitchentable.net)
Date: 03/30/05

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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:44:38 -0800
    To: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
    
    

    On 3/30/2005 9:39 AM Karl Denninger wrote:

    >On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Jim Trigg wrote:
    >
    >
    >>On Wed, March 30, 2005 12:43 am, Karl Denninger said:
    >>
    >>
    >>>Here's the diff and some thoughts....
    >>>
    >>>
    >>[snip, including first diff]
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>241,243c244,249
    >>><
    >>>< /* if reinit succeeded and retries still permit, reinject request
    >>>*/
    >>>< if (ata_reinit(ch) && request->retries-- > 0 &&
    >>>request->device->param){
    >>>---
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>> /*
    >>>> * if reinit succeeds, retries still permit and device didn't
    >>>> * get removed by the reinit, reinject request
    >>>> */
    >>>> if (!ata_reinit(ch) && request->retries-- > 0
    >>>> && request->device->param){
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>[snip third diff]
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>The second diff is really just a formatting and comment change.. you're
    >>>certainly correct that the changes are small! :-)
    >>>
    >>>
    >>No, it is not -- it reverses the sense of the first condition. At first
    >>glance that is what I would expect to be the core of the problem, but I
    >>don't have appropriate hardware to test on. (It also adds a third
    >>condition, but that is presumably the intent of the change and should give
    >>the desired results once the first condition is corrected.)
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >You're correct of course - I missed the "!". Too darn late at night...
    >
    >I've got my sandbox up and the world rebuilt so its consistent with the
    >machine that's having the problem - will add a SATA disk and see if I can
    >duplicate this and then figure out what's going on here this afternoon -
    >and hopefully how to fix it.
    >
    >
    I missed the beginning of this thread and apologize if my question has
    already been covered. But can you tell me if this issue might be the
    reason my PC locks up intermittently ? I have whatever cheap card came
    with a Maxtor 160 GB SATA drive installed in this machine and the PC ran
    fine with Windows. Now I'm trying install FBSD from the 5.4-BETA ISO I
    downloaded from the ftp site. The PC runs POST fine and always boots
    from the CD to the boot menu. After picking the default option 1
    (normal boot) the PC locks up anywhere from the dmesg output to
    sysinstall actually beginning to install the base package after doing
    the fdisk and disklabel stuff. Should I download 5.3-RELEASE and try
    installing from that?

    Thanks,

    Drew
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