From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 17 13:38:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from popmail.ct.lodgenet.com (mozart.lodgenet.com [204.124.122.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B9D737B413 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:38:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 77151 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2002 16:43:27 -0000 Received: from windoze.ct.lodgenet.com (HELO windoze.lodgenet.com) (10.0.122.50) by popmail.ct.lodgenet.com with SMTP; 17 Jun 2002 16:43:27 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020617112839.030a9ff8@popmail.ct.lodgenet.com> X-Sender: johnp@popmail.ct.lodgenet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:38:01 -0500 To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Prince Subject: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have to say, I am a bit disappointed in the 4.6 release, as well as the way problems have been identified, and swept under the carpet.. It appears the ATA code was MFC, and does not perform as one would expect.. In simpler terms, it does not work correctly. Several people have reported having problems with ATAPI cdrom, as well as problems with IDE drives and th3e ATA driver(s), since March. I read a few threads indicating it was being looked into, however it appears nothing was fixed. If I am wrong about this, then please tell me.. If not, can someone reply as to why the stability of FreeBSD was compromised in favor of an improved method, that does not quite have the bugs out of it.. 4.6 release is "Broke" and will not work with many existing hardware configurations. 4.5 release worked.. My 2 cents.. John Prince To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message