Subject: Re: 2.4.x swim3 performance problem on PM4400 identified

From: Boris Bezlaj <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:58:40 +0100

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

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