The following reply was made to PR port-i386/30236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bernd Ernesti <pr200502@veego.de>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/30236: HighPoint 1540 doesn't find connected drives and freezes the system
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 14:06:56 +0200

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 On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 01:29:24PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > Can you try the first attached patch ? If this doesn't help, please try
 > diff2, but note that this one will break any drive configured as
 > slave.
 
 No difference with both diffs, where I had to modify diff2 so this was
 the version I did test instead of diff2.
 
 Bernd
 
 
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 --- sys/dev/ic/wdc.c.orig	2005-05-06 10:55:38.000000000 +0200
 +++ sys/dev/ic/wdc.c	2005-05-16 13:59:23.000000000 +0200
 @@ -1147,6 +1147,8 @@
  wdcwait(struct ata_channel *chp, int mask, int bits, int timeout, int flags)
  {
  	int error, i, timeout_hz = mstohz(timeout);
 +	struct wdc_softc *wdc = CHAN_TO_WDC(chp);
 +	struct wdc_regs *wdr = &wdc->regs[chp->ch_channel];
  
  	if (timeout_hz == 0 ||
  	    (flags & (AT_WAIT | AT_POLL)) == AT_POLL)
 @@ -1161,12 +1163,13 @@
  				 * or some userland thread context
  				 */
  				for (i = 0; i < timeout_hz; i++) {
 +					tsleep(&chp, PRIBIO, "atapoll", 1);
 +					bus_space_write_1(wdr->cmd_iot, wdr->cmd_iohs[wd_sdh], 0, WDSD_IBM | 0 /* (xfer->c_drive << 4) */);
  					if (__wdcwait(chp, mask, bits,
  					    WDCDELAY_POLL) == 0) {
  						error = 0;
  						break;
  					}
 -					tsleep(&chp, PRIBIO, "atapoll", 1);
  				}
  			} else {
  				/*
 
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