PLEASE TEST: IPI deadlock avoidance patch

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:10 PM -0500 2004-08-26, Craig Boston wrote:

>  Two of the drives in the RAID5 are on:
>
>  atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller>
>  ad0: 9541MB <Maxtor 51024H2/DAC10SC0> [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
>  ad2: 9541MB <Maxtor 91024U3/RA530JN0> [19386/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
>
>  The third drive is on:
>  ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter>

	Ouch.  Bad juju, bwana.  RAID-5 really, really wants all drives 
to be 100% identical, in every way, shape, and form.  If they're not 
and you're very, very lucky, it might just be slow.

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