Robert Watson wrote:
6.0 contains a significant re-write and update of the ATA driver, and corrects a number of known problems with timeouts and reliability. This rewrite is available as patches against 5.x, but has not been committed because ATA is a very sensitive thing (lots of very diverse and very broken hardware), and has had insufficient testing. If you have test hardware available that's not in production, it would be quite helpful if you could install 6.0-BETA2, once that comes out in the next week or so, and see if the specific ATA problems you're experiencing occur there. It's not impossible that the new ATA code will be merged to 5.x, but I think we cannot do that until it has seen a lot more exposure. If you search back through the mailing archives, you should be able to find posts from Soren regarding the new ATA patches, if you want to give them a try on 5.x.
Yes, I will try and find those patches for 5, I do not have a free machine that exhibits the problem, but, I do have my disk cloned so a quick test of a patch should be simple and risk free over a weekend when I have time to mess around.
If anyone has that link handy, please post. (for the patch) Steve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
