Re: WD/ide_pci bug! [was Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard ]

1999-01-27 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Matt Behrens wrote... > Never mind. Apparently it went south on me while I was having > lunch. > > I got this curious error when I paniced the debugger (paraphrased): > > HELP! busy_count is less then 0 (-1) > > Is this something of a clue? I've never been able to sync the > drives at all by p

Re: WD/ide_pci bug! [was Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard ]

1999-01-27 Thread Matt Behrens
Never mind. Apparently it went south on me while I was having lunch. I got this curious error when I paniced the debugger (paraphrased): HELP! busy_count is less then 0 (-1) Is this something of a clue? I've never been able to sync the drives at all by panicing, it can't communicate with the I

Re: WD/ide_pci bug! [was Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard ]

1999-01-27 Thread Matt Behrens
Greg et al, I added "flags 0x80ff" to my wd0 and wd1 lines (I don't have PCI IDE, but rather VLB, so the 0x4000 bit doesn't apply) :), was able to successfully get 32-bit mode and multiblock-16 out of both of my drives, and have been able to enable softupdates all around again without seeing any o

WD/ide_pci bug! [was Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard ]

1999-01-26 Thread Gregory Bond
Well stone the bloody crows. System: HP Kayak XA 440BX M/b, P-II, Quantum Fireball ex4.3a For months I've been running with no flags on either wdc0 or wd0. Having followed the recent discussions about DMA mode etc I looked at LINT and added "flags 0xa0ff" to wd0. Rebuilt the system using the lat