Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-05 Thread Mike Smith
This is results of testing my machine (Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX notebook). Shows not very huge improvement yet ;) The 1403 is a pretty slow drive, and the IDE interface in most of the Satellites just plain sucks. ad0: TOSHIBA MK1403MAV/D3.06 A ATA-? disk at ata0 as master ad0: 1376MB

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-03 Thread Maxim Sobolev
This is results of testing my machine (Toshiba Satellite Pro 445CDX notebook). Shows not very huge improvement yet ;) wd driver: ? ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- ? -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-03 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, SXren Schmidt wrote: It seems Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the newer drives supports. Wow! :) Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :)

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-03 Thread hnokubi
Do you have any plans to support OPTICAL device? I want to use my PD drive (NEC ODX654P), and some other people want to use ATAPI MO. I've already made patch for PD/CD drive, and registered it as PR kern/10116. But it's not so good patch, because my PD drive has 2 LUN's. LUN0 is CD-ROM and LUN1

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-03 Thread Tony Kimball
Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the newer drives supports. Whoa! What drives?!?! I want a dozen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-03 Thread Jake
I'm curious how the new driver handles numbering. You said in your first mail that drives are numbered by probe order? I have two 4 gig IDE drives, both single masters on separate channels. I'm only booting from the first one, so that's not a problem, but the first is called wd0 and the second

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-03 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:21:05PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: Finally!! The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe. So what does this bring us: A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome most of

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-03 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Nicolas Souchu wrote: What would you think of parallel port devices? Would it be easy to make the new ATAPI stuff work with ppbus? I especially think about the HP7200 CD-RW which has certainly hard real-time constraints to burn a CD. Hmm, you have any docs on how to talk to such a

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-03 Thread Satoshi Asami
* From: Robert Watson rob...@cyrus.watson.org * away logged in via the network performing this recovery. Having the * drives automatically renumber themselves on the complete failure of one * drive (and it was fairly complete) would have been a disaster. This is Or just think ccd. There

ccd/vinum (was: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..)

1999-03-03 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 3 March 1999 at 14:59:49 -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote: * From: Robert Watson rob...@cyrus.watson.org * away logged in via the network performing this recovery. Having the * drives automatically renumber themselves on the complete failure of one * drive (and it was fairly

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Satoshi Asami wrote: * From: Robert Watson rob...@cyrus.watson.org * away logged in via the network performing this recovery. Having the * drives automatically renumber themselves on the complete failure of one * drive (and it was fairly complete) would have been a disaster. This is

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
Søren Schmidt writes : Good work, no more stinky delay :-) Thanks!, and I hate delays too :) It works beautifully for me. I can imagine that the people with UDMA drives can't wait for DMA support in it. :-) I've run some tests with Bonnie. Need to still reboot with my old kernel,

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Geoff Rehmet wrote: Søren Schmidt writes : Good work, no more stinky delay :-) Thanks!, and I hate delays too :) It works beautifully for me. I can imagine that the people with UDMA drives can't wait for DMA support in it. :-) Its in the works, together with the tagged

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Will the new ATAPI drivers still work with wormcontrol for ATAPI CD Writers? Since it is a WIP, will it support it if it doesn't? Tom Veldhouse ve...@visi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Brian Somers
[.] I would very much like to hear from you, both good and bad news are very welcome. [.] Looks good on my laptop ! ad0: FUJITSU MHC2040AT/0819 ATA-3 disk at ata0 as master ad0: 3909MB (8007552 sectors), 7944 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue acd0:

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Will the new ATAPI drivers still work with wormcontrol for ATAPI CD Writers? Since it is a WIP, will it support it if it doesn't? It should, but i just found out that it somehow fails, I'm bughunting... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the newer drives supports. Wow! :) Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software -

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the newer drives supports. Wow! :) Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :) I'll think about it, but lots of things has higher

RE: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the newer drives supports. Wow! :) Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :) I'll think about it, but lots of things has higher priority... -Søren

CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-01 Thread S�ren Schmidt
Finally!! The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe. So what does this bring us: A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome most of the deficiencies with the current drivers. It supports PCI as

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-01 Thread oZZ!!!
controllerata0 deviceatadisk0# ATA disks deviceatapicd0# ATAPI CDROM's After (fastest(!!!)) boot: $ dmesg .. chip1: Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0 ata-pci0: Intel PIIX4 IDE controller rev 0x01 on pci0.7.1 ata0 at

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-01 Thread David Kelly
S ren Schmidt writes: There is NO support for bad144, if your disk is bad, ditch it, it has already outgrown its internal spare sectors, and is dying. Speaking of which, is there any portable way to monitor bad block lists on ATA drives? And the S.M.A.R.T. stuff that some vendors advertise?

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-01 Thread Brian Feldman
Do you have any plans to move the wfd(4) driver to the new ATA framework? I'd be glad to test it all out, as long as I don't lose my LS-120's functionality. Thanks in advance! Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-01 Thread Tugrul
The new driver fails to build when devfs is also in the config. I made a simple change of static void *devfs_token to void *devfs_token on line 183 in ata-all.h and all seems good. Good work, no more stinky delay :-) Tugrul Galatali To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-01 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems oZZ!!! wrote: controller ata0 device atadisk0# ATA disks device atapicd0# ATAPI CDROM's After (fastest(!!!)) boot: $ dmesg .. chip1: Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0 ata-pci0: Intel PIIX4 IDE controller rev

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-01 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems David Kelly wrote: S ren Schmidt writes: There is NO support for bad144, if your disk is bad, ditch it, it has already outgrown its internal spare sectors, and is dying. Speaking of which, is there any portable way to monitor bad block lists on ATA drives? And the S.M.A.R.T.

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-01 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Brian Feldman wrote: Do you have any plans to move the wfd(4) driver to the new ATA framework? I'd be glad to test it all out, as long as I don't lose my LS-120's functionality. Thanks in advance! I'm, waiting for my ZIP drive to arrive, then there will be an atapi-fd driver as

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-01 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Tugrul wrote: The new driver fails to build when devfs is also in the config. I made a simple change of static void *devfs_token to void *devfs_token on line 183 in ata-all.h and all seems good. I know, I was thi close to ripping all the devfs stuff out, but... Good