From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 6 3:29:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gatesrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (gatesrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.10.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB6E151E8; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 03:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from didi@Xterminator.STUDFB.UniBw-Muenchen.de) Received: from XTerminator.StudFb.UniBw-Muenchen.De (Xterminator.STUDFB.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.211.64]) by gatesrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08427; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:29:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from didi.STUDFB.UniBw-Muenchen.de (didi.STUDFB.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.211.220]) by XTerminator.StudFb.UniBw-Muenchen.De (8.8.7/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA32495; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:28:34 +0100 From: Dieter Rothacker To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver as the default Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:29:18 +0100 Organization: Organized ? No way... Message-ID: References: <19991205193638.B74670@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <19991205193638.B74670@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.661 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:36:38 -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. So far, the ATA driver works flawlessly with my PIIX3 and my Abit Hotrod66 PCI card (HPT366 chip). When I have my system set up completely, I will do some stress tests. The linux driver for the HPT366 is seriously broken, it never got the IRQ handling right when both channels on the chip were used and actually transferred data in parallel (I have one IBM UDMA66 drive on each channel) - I hope FreeBSD's driver is better :-) -- Dieter Rothacker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message