I jumped back to 4.5 earlier, installing 4.6-R with 120GB IDE drives (1x 40GB, 3x 120GB) and the system wouldn't boot.
Came up with a page fault and fatal trap 12, i'll try grab some output and repost. Thanks, Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Andree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:57 AM Subject: Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release > "David W. Chapman Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:38:01AM -0500, John Prince wrote: > >> I have to say, I am a bit disappointed in the 4.6 release, as well as the > >> way problems have been identified, and swept under the carpet.. > > > > Why didn't you express these concerns for the past few months? > > There have been several reports of ATA and ATAPI brokenness after the > MFC. > > After I brought the TCQ brokenness up again at 4.6-RC time, S�ren fixed > the boot panic I experienced, and in late May he wrote he could > reproduce the other known TCQ-timeout-and-fall-back-to-PIO problem, but > I've never seen anything since. But what is bringing up a known problem > again of help? Do you want people to scream their problem list every > week? The PRs are there, and are open, so you cannot say these concerns > had not been expressed. They have indeed. > > And I agree with those who say that 4.6 should NOT have been released > with ATA(PI) in /this/ shape. > > I have been told (on this list) by the RE team that the MFC cannot be > backed out and that 5.0DP2 is close, and I understand they want to keep > the schedule as good as possible, but all these objections do not help > the regression or displeasing users. And the latter is a Bad Thing�. > > -- > Matthias Andree > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
