svn commit: r184429 - head/sys/powerpc/powermac

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 29 08:41:18 PDT 2008


On Tuesday 28 October 2008 06:09:30 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> Author: nwhitehorn
> Date: Tue Oct 28 22:09:30 2008
> New Revision: 184429
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184429
> 
> Log:
>   DBDMA can transfer a maximum of 64K - 1 bytes per descriptor, as the byte
>   count field is 16 bits. Inform ATA of this fact.

You may want to use 32k transfers rather than 63k.  At least on the HT1000 
chipsets we got severe data corruption even with 63k transfers, and I'm not 
sure if some part of the kernel isn't dependent on power-of-2 transfers 
somehow.

-- 
John Baldwin


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