From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed May  5 05:43:53 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0DA16A4CE
	for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed,  5 May 2004 05:43:53 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from VARK.homeunix.com (adsl-68-124-137-57.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net
	[68.124.137.57])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF40C43D3F
	for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed,  5 May 2004 05:43:52 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from VARK.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by VARK.homeunix.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i45ChneV000837;
	Wed, 5 May 2004 05:43:49 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: (from das@localhost)
	by VARK.homeunix.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i45Chn4W000836;
	Wed, 5 May 2004 05:43:49 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG)
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>
Message-ID: <20040505124349.GA612@VARK.homeunix.com>
Mail-Followup-To: "=?us-ascii:iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt"
	<sos@DeepCore.dk>,
	Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
References: <200405041825.i44IPgVa021573@ambrisko.com>
	<4097F9EA.1080904@DeepCore.dk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <4097F9EA.1080904@DeepCore.dk>
cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Updated SATA support patches for Intel ICH & Promise cards
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 12:43:53 -0000

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.