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SubjectRe: Changes in siimage driver?
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:09:54 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
<B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> wrote:
>> Well, I understand that, but the older version of the driver (as of
>> test4-mm4) doesn't have these problems (better performance according to
>> hdparm, no corruption). The latest changes to the driver seems to have
>> introduced problems, or is it just me?
>
> You are the first person reporting problems after syncing siimage driver
> with
> 2.4.x ;-). It's unlikely that corruption is caused by siimage driver
> update,
> we should have seen similar problems with 2.4.x, but...
Yes, it's weird, but it happened the first time I tried the test5 kernel.
Not a good feeling, sitting with directories you can't even delete :\ The
computer had been up for some time (12 hours or so), and several files I
had open for editing were zeroed out when I opened them after reboot.
Could it have to do with my Maxtor DiamondMax drive perhaps? I guess most
people got Seagate SATA drives, I've since then purchased a Seagate 7200.7
SATA to complement the Maxtor.

> Performance is crippled because of workaround for buggy controllers.
> We turn it on unconditionally now, we should do it only on affected
> controllers. I believe freebsd's workaround is correct and we can adopt
> it.
> For more details please see the other thread regarding siimage.
Sounds great, I think I will migrate to a newer kernel once I have done
some proper backups to an unmounted partition :]

Thanks

Arve Knudsen
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