From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 22:22: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.dagupan.com (www.psysc.org.ph [206.101.69.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0E837B416 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by apmail.dagupan.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:21:49 +0800 Message-ID: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340C4C@apmail.dagupan.com> From: francisv@dagupan.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ATA 48-bit mode addressing Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:21:44 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Is the new ATA driver ready for production use? What benefit(s) would 48-bit addressing bring? ---included story--- 3 November, 2001: Soren Schmidt, author of the ATA driver, tested a new 160 GB ATA harddisk provided kindly by Maxtor Corporation with the new ATA specification's 48-bit addressing mode support in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. The results show that the code is stable and functions as it should and will be backported to STABLE. --- francis a. vidal [bitstop network services] | http://www.dagupan.com streaming media + web hosting | http://www.keystone.ph v(02)330-2871,(02)330-2872; f(02)330-2873 | http://www.kuro.ph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message