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Date:      Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:22:12 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c
Message-ID:  <20011024140646.F77798-100000@achilles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpr8rsyib2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 24 Oct 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Please look at the diff.  It does not change the default value of the
> hw.ata.wc tunable (which, BTW, is still 0 in -CURRENT); it just fixes
> a bug where write cacheing would sometimes be incorrectly enabled even
> when the hw.ata.wc was set to 0.  This is the correct behaviour for
> devices that support tagged queuing, but not for those that do not.

My apologies; I misinterpreted your commit message.  The change looks
good.

Interesting that we have the default different between -stable and
-current, I assumed that they were the same.

> Only 75GXPs, AFAIK.  They were pulled from the market in Norway,
> though not, I've been told, in many other countries.

I suspect that if the 75GXPs had been warranty replaced by 60GXPs, nobody
would've gotten upset and noticed...  they must have some fundamental
problem with their larger capacities, given that the other companies have
released 100GB and they haven't.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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