Re: atapicam broken by ata_lowlevel.c rev.1.23

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 bremner_at_unb.ca wrote:

> At Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:07:30 -0600,
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> >
> > In the last episode (Nov 27), Bruce Evans said:
> > > [Resending due to no response after 2 weeks.]
> > >
> > > Rev.1.23 of ata-lowlevel.c broke atapicam on my BP6 system as shown
> > > by the enclosed boot -v messages (the system just hangs, apparently
> > > waiting for a disk interrupt that never arrives; there seems to be no
> > > timeout).
> >
> > If it's any consolation: "me too" :)  Backing out 1.23 worked for me as
> > well.  The system that I saw the hang on isn't SMP.  I also
> > pre-emptively patched another SMP system before I had to drive in to
> > fix it if it hung.
>
> I just wanted to report that my boot hang problems (which were "cured"
> by reverting to revision 1.22 of ata-lowlevel.c) have gone away with
> 5.2-RC1; more precisely with 5.2-CURRENT of Dec. 10.

This was fixed (apparently without knowing about all the reports of the
bug's realized potential) in:

% RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c,v
% Working file: atapi-cam.c
% head: 1.29
% ...
% ----------------------------
% revision 1.29
% date: 2003/12/05 01:02:46;  author: scottl;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
% Fix a potential problem with atapi-cam where an incorrect flag is passed
% into the ata queueing layer.
%
% Approved by:	re
% ----------------------------

Bruce