Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
To: Tohru Nishimura <nisimura@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/03/2000 18:15:54
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 06:10:21PM -0700, Tohru Nishimura wrote:

While this work-around is fine for now, I think a better solution for
the problem needs to be explored.

 > Module Name:	syssrc
 > Committed By:	nisimura
 > Date:		Tue Jul  4 01:10:20 UTC 2000
 > 
 > Modified Files:
 > 	syssrc/sys/dev/ic: ncr53c9x.c
 > 
 > Log Message:
 > Fix negative timeout symptoms caused by integer multiply overflow,
 > which is revealed with larger HZ systems like NetBSD/pmax (256Hz)
 > and NetBSD/alpha (1024Hz) as reported by PR#8645.  Polled tape
 > drive access is done with maximum 6 hour timeout which ended up
 > with negative time and then confused SCSI bus severely.
 > 
 > 
 > To generate a diff of this commit:
 > cvs rdiff -r1.51 -r1.52 syssrc/sys/dev/ic/ncr53c9x.c
 > 
 > Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 > copyright notices on the relevant files.
 > 
 > 

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>