From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 02:24:22 2005 Return-Path: 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 15D8516A4CE; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:24:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691BD43D49; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:24:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from RabbitsDen ([70.21.161.195]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20050205022420.QPOU26937.out002.verizon.net@RabbitsDen>; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:24:20 -0600 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt In-Reply-To: <42028F29.1030801@DeepCore.dk> References: <42028F29.1030801@DeepCore.dk> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-I7tfFkhafq8rB0O5xyfS" Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:23:01 -0500 Message-Id: <1107570181.963.11.camel@RabbitsDen> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [70.21.161.195] at Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:24:19 -0600 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: 'FreeBSD Current' cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:24:22 -0000 --=-I7tfFkhafq8rB0O5xyfS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:52 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > ATA-mkIII first official snapshot. > > This is the much rumoured ATA update that I've been working on for some time. > > It contains a number of new things, and lacks a few features of the old code. > > New items include: > > o ATA is now fully newbus'd and split into modules. > This means that on a modern system you just load "atapci and ata" > to get the base support, and then one or more of the device > subdrivers "atadisk atapicd atapifd atapist ataraid". > All can be loaded/unloaded anytime, but for obvious reasons you > dont want to unload atadisk when you have mounted filesystems. > > o The device identify part of the probe has been rewritten to fix > the problems with odd devices the old had, and to try to remove > so of the long delays some HW could provoke. > > o SATA devices can be hot inserted/removed and devices will be created/ > removed in /dev accordingly. NOTE only supported on controllers that > has this feature: Promise and Silicon Image for now. > > o ATA RAID support has been rewritten and and now supports these > metadata formats: > "Adaptec HostRAID" > "Highpoint V2 RocketRAID" > "Highpoint V3 RocketRAID" > "Intel MatrixRAID" > "Integrated Technology Express" > "LSILogic V2 MegaRAID" > "LSILogic V3 MegaRAID" > "Promise FastTrak" > "Silicon Image Medley" > > o The reinit code has been worked over to be much more robust. > > o The timeout code has been overhauled for races. > > o Lots of fixes for bugs found while doing the modulerization and > reviewing the old code. > > > Missing features form current ATA: > > o atapi-cd no longer has support for ATAPI changers. Todays its > much cheaper and alot faster to copy those CD images to disk > and serve them from there. Besides they dont seem to be made > anymore, maybe for that exact reason. > > o ATA RAID can only read metadata not write them. This means that > arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be created > from FreeBSD. This is being worked on for the final release as is > RAID5 support for Promise/Highpoing/SiI controllers. > > o The atapi-cam author has been informed and has had early access > to this work but so far atapicam is not supported with these > changes. However I do have my own atacam that puts both ATA and ATAPI > devices under CAM, but its really just academic at this point. > > And then there all the things that I've happily forgotten about :) > > The snapshot is available as a patch for RELENG_5 and for CURRENT, and > a common tarfile of the new ATA code. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3j.diff-releng5.gz > http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3j.diff-current.gz > http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3j.tar.gz > > Both patches and the tarfile is relative to /usr/src. > You might want to remove the contents of sys/dev/ata/ before unpacking > the tarfile. > > No changes are needed to your config file, unless you want ATA as modules. > > As usual, even if it works on all the HW I have here in the lab, thats by > far not the same as it works on YOUR system. So use glowes and safety shoes > and if it breaks I dont want the pieces, but would like to hear the nifty > details on how exactly it got that way :) > > Enjoy! > Works beautifully here (AVERATEC 3150H with VIA 8235). Timeouts on non-existing slaves are gone for good. Patch for -current (as of yesterday) failed to compile afterward (log attached), but removing sys/dev/ata/* and untaring archive worked just fine. -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко) --=-I7tfFkhafq8rB0O5xyfS--