On Sat, 2003/02/08 at 03:18:54 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> I'm having lots of problems with crashdumps under 5.0. Most of the
> time trying to force a dump via 'call doadump' returns an error about
> 'Context switches not permitted in the debugger'. Calling it again
> causes the system to hang. Is anyone else seeing this?
If this is on ATA, try the attached patch. It changes ata_getparam()
to not block anymore by reverting to the pre-r1.138 behaviour. This is
just a quick hack though, since r1.138 was apparently made to fix
probing of some CD-ROMs (so these are broken again by this patch).
- Thomas
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Index: ata-all.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /ncvs/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c,v
retrieving revision 1.163
diff -u -r1.163 ata-all.c
--- ata-all.c 19 Jan 2003 20:18:07 -0000 1.163
+++ ata-all.c 21 Jan 2003 17:01:13 -0000
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@
/* apparently some devices needs this repeated */
do {
- if (ata_command(atadev, command, 0, 0, 0, ATA_WAIT_INTR)) {
+ if (ata_command(atadev, command, 0, 0, 0, ATA_WAIT_READY)) {
ata_prtdev(atadev, "%s identify failed\n",
command == ATA_C_ATAPI_IDENTIFY ? "ATAPI" : "ATA");
free(ata_parm, M_ATA);
