From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 6 2:19:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026DF15477; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 02:19:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4A32CE58; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:19:18 +0200 (EET) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 96839106; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:19:16 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:19:16 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: David O'Brien Cc: sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA driver as the default Message-ID: <19991206121916.A17569@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <19991205193638.B74670@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19991205193638.B74670@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:36:38PM -0800 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:36:38PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > Since the ATA driver is destined to be the default in 4.0-R, and we hare > hitting the feature freeze date; can we make the switch now? > > I think it is very important to get ATA into more hands to see where it > breaks. It certainly has problems on my Vaio 505 laptop; and I wonder > where else it will have problems. Better to find them now than right > before release. It doesn't know about SiS 5591 PCI IDE controller, the wdc controller knows. I'm speaking about boot messages, nothing else. Furthermore the wdc driver sets up UDMA mode on my UDMA capable disks, ata driver doesn't. It claims that busmastering DMA is supported and sets up WDMA2 mode instead, I think it's normal as it currently doesn't know about 5591. The WDMA2 isn't really that bad and otherwise I'm using ata driver quite happily. Just FYI. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message