From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 15:49:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A275E16A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:49:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from magellan.palisadesys.com (magellan.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590AE43D45 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:49:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from [172.16.1.108] (cetus.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by magellan.palisadesys.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j67Fnb61076767 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:49:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Message-ID: <42CD4F12.6060408@palisadesys.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:49:38 -0500 From: Guy Helmer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <20050707121909.M940@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20050707121909.M940@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Palisade-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Palisade-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: ghelmer@palisadesys.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA support in 5.x ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:49:43 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > How stable is it right now? I was talking with a friend yesterday > about it, and he mentioned something about 3 re-write of the code over > 2 releases, and that each one wasn't backwards compatible with the > other, so you ended up with corrupted file systems ... > > I'm looking at upgrading my only SATA server to 5.x, since the 4.x > that is currently running on it is getting hangs whenever load is put > onto the drives :( > It's working fine on our basic h/w platform (Supermicro P4SCE w/ Intel ICH5 SATA controller, single WD 80G drive) under FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4. I don't understand the claim that there isn't backward compatibility, unless that refers to the continually improving ATA RAID support as Søren keeps working on the driver. Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Principal System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.