From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:58:40 +0100 From: Boris Bezlaj To: Remco Treffkorn Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 2.4.x swim3 performance problem on PM4400 identified Message-ID: <20030329085840.GA529@gajba.net> References: <16004.27866.270601.561756@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030328212513.GA456@gajba.net> <200303281813.31378.remco@rvt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200303281813.31378.remco@rvt.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:13:31PM -0800, Remco Treffkorn wrote: > On Friday 28 March 2003 13:25, Boris Bezlaj wrote: > > There seem to be some old problems when reading > > > > (also in 2.2 / 2.4 w/o your patch): > > | swim3: expected cyl 3, got 4 > > | swim3: expected cyl 4, got 5 > > | swim3: expected cyl 5, got 6 > > | ....and so on until everything is loaded > > > > most notable when loading commpressed filesystem image at boot. > > > > I do not believe it is related to bad floppies. No, this is clearly a driver problem. I don't know much about floppy operation but i think the driver should handle this better.. -- Boris ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/