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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:58:23 -0800
From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: jjramsey@pobox.com
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Revisiting the semirandom bug/issue in FreeBSD's ATA querying
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Thus spake James J. Ramsey <jjramsey_6x9eq42@yahoo.com>:
> --- David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
> wrote:
> >  Alternatively, you can add one
> > yourself.  The patch
> > below won't apply cleanly on -CURRENT, but it's easy
> > enough to add
> > the lines manually.
> 
> What will it apply cleanly against? I'd rather apply
> it against FreeBSD 4.7 if I can, since from what I've
> read, 5.0 is still rather raw, and the problem seems
> common to both 4.x and 5.x anyway.

4.7 release is fine.  Just apply the patch
(cd /usr/src && patch < /path/to/patch)
and build a new kernel as described in the
handbook.

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