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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!myall.awadi.com.au!blymn From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd: trouble copying large directories from IDE to SCSI Date: 18 Jun 1993 02:12:45 GMT Organization: AWA Defence Industries Lines: 19 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Jun17201246@mallee.awadi.com.au> References: <C8MJvK.3HoF@austin.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mallee.awadi.com.au In-reply-to: boyd@austin.ibm.com's message of Mon, 14 Jun 1993 18:40:32 GMT >>>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 1993 18:40:32 GMT, boyd@austin.ibm.com (Boyd R. Faulkner) said: Boyd> Originator: boyd@pal411.austin.ibm.com Boyd> It starts cranking and eventually the IDE drive light goes on solid and disk Boyd> activity stops. If I hit enter the screen scrolls but that is about it. Ummmm I *think* I might have fixed this one already. I had the same problem except I had an ESDI drive, the patchkit seemed to exacerbate the problem. I thought that a later patchkit contained my patch to fix this but I am not sure now. What I found was that sometimes the controller and the hard-disk seem to get out of sync with each other and the controller thinks the disk is always busy when it is not. I added code to the wait loops in the driver to timeout the wait and reset the controller if this occurred. If you cannot find the patch (I think is was on agate somewhere) then send me a mail message and I will forward a copy to you. -- Brett Lymn