From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 14 14:11:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.ufl.edu (sp28fe.nerdc.ufl.edu [128.227.128.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EEE37B7D7; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:11:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from saxonww@ufl.edu) Received: from n44-230.dhnet.ufl.edu (gremlin@[128.227.44.230]) by smtp.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/2.2.1) with ESMTP id RAA195984; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:11:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:11:23 -0500 (EST) From: Will Saxon X-Sender: gremlin@localhost To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Patrik Sundberg , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ATA timeout errors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, while this isn't a problem that causes panics or makes people unable to use their machines, I think maybe the removal of the older wd driver ought to be held off until the ata driver provides all the features wdc does don't you think? I guess the philosophy here is that there shouldn't be driver redundancy in a -RELEASE or something? I will continue to use ata because my drives work (albeit in PIO mode apparently) and I don't play audio off the cdrom. Some people will probably hold off on upgrading to 4.0 because of this, and I don't know if anyone important cares about that but imho it kind of looks bad. Just a thought. Again, my box works, just not as advertised :). Could very well be user error, I just don't know. -will On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Patrik Sundberg wrote: > > > I also get this when booting - think it started happening when I started > > using the new ata-driver. For me it happens when the root is supposed to be > > mounted (from dmesg): > > > As you can see I am using a seagate disk and I am having the same problem. > > I've always had this problem with the new ata drivers (on a Western > Digital, though). Looks like it's just something we have to Deal With :-( > Plus, my CDROM doesn't do audio any more. > > Kris > > ---- > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > -- Charles Forsythe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message