On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:56:14PM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > Amazingly, this has been going on after a switch from 6.2 (which worked) > to 6.3. > lots of people have reported it, and we accidentally fixed it (but we > can't find documentation on what we fixed). > > it also doesn't work on 7.0 either. > here is a dmsg for a 6.3 one that accidentally works. > (i have a kernel that works), tech playing around with it months ago > can't remember if he used 6.2 drivers or found an obscure patch. > > Now that 5.5 is EOL, and we can't get ports for 5.5, it might be > important for freebsd folks (in their spare time after 7.1 and 6.4 beta) > to fix this. > > or, at least to fix it in 6.4. > > Yes, DELL 750, worked fine in 5.5 (lots of 5.5 systems I can't upgrade). > suggestions that we replace the (faulty?) hard disk controller cause lots > of problems. > Its a different tech (more expensive) in the field that has to replace > hardware, vs the one who can plug in a 6.3 CD rom and passively watch an > automated upgrade.
A few questions: 1) What does "accidentally works" mean? 2) Do I understand you correctly: 6300ESB works on FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.2, "accidentally works" on 6.3, but does not work on 7.0? 3) Have you tried 7.1-PRERELEASE? I make no promises, but additional confirmation would be helpful. ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200809/ 4) Have you contacted the ata(4) author, Soren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about this driver regression? 5) Is there a PR open on this matter, or have you filed one? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
