make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

[Mike Tancsa]

At 02:13 PM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 07:58:20PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > Most likely the bug you have run into is difficult or impossible to
> > reproduce on other hardware than the particular combination you are using.
>
>FWIW my earlier post about it appearing to work with only one disk on the
>chain was incorrect.  It still fails - just takes longer (and more load).

The LINUX driver seems to kick the card into a lower UDMA mode to work 
around a bug on that chip.  Is this possible to do with your controller via 
atacontrol ? There seemed to be a number of other bugs as well that needed 
to be worked around too however.

         ---Mike