Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 05:43:49 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "=?us-ascii:iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt" <sos@DeepCore.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updated SATA support patches for Intel ICH & Promise cards Message-ID: <20040505124349.GA612@VARK.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4097F9EA.1080904@DeepCore.dk> References: <200405041825.i44IPgVa021573@ambrisko.com> <4097F9EA.1080904@DeepCore.dk>
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On Tue, May 04, 2004, Sren Schmidt wrote: > Doug Ambrisko wrote: > >These patches have been updated to -current as of the past weekend. > >They increase the robustness of SATA disk errors (media errors and > >drive going away such as drives that spin up and down). Also has > >code to support hot swap on both controllers. > > > >This is only HW support and does not address other ata/FreeBSD issues. > >That isn't quite right ... some ata changes have been made to avoid > >panics in probes etc. to support the HW changes. [...] > I'm sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, but your work conflicts pretty > much head on with the way I want this to move along. However code to > read/write the RAID config (AMI way I'd guess) would be welcomed as I > only have the descriptions for that done, but no code yet... The ata driver has not worked with my hardware for months, as I reported to you last September. With Doug's patches, things work perfectly. Therefore, I'd really appreciate it if you gave more consideration to his work. I would be happy to help merge them with your changes if you'll allow me.
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