From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Nielsen To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil woes Message-ID: <20031118233023.GJ65844@cassie.foobarbaz.net> References: <20031118223511.GI65844@cassie.foobarbaz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:30:23 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8f161aac-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:10:06PM -0500, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > cat '#P/irqalloc' > should tell you. ah great. thanks. #nidaba cat '#P/irqalloc' 3 0 debugpt 7 0 mathemu 8 0 doublefault 9 0 mathover 14 0 fault386 16 0 matherror 32 0 clock 33 1 kbd 36 4 COM1 38 6 floppy 41 9 sdF (ata) 41 9 sdE (ata) 43 11 usb0 43 11 ether0 47 15 sdD (ata) So it looks like the controllers for the four disks are sharing an interrupt. That could be a problem... > > ... > > The controller is a Promise 100TX2 (PDC20268). > > ... > Does anyone know if this works properly? I know the driver > will recognise it, but are there any bugs/workarounds for this > chip we are missing? That was one of the first things I started to look into. I didn't see anything unusual in the FreeBSD ata driver that would indicate it has troubles. But I did see some possible problems when I did a google search. I haven't had the time to dive into it in enough detail. I'll see if I can find anything useful. -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin