From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 25 15:36:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B802816A420 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:36:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp111.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp111.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F5C143D48 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:36:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 14097 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2005 15:36:03 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=xQyyz9aT9fNWQqKby6w07D1fOEQlBygff8tZr1fXHj0t+lEB2P90x0clrDeLTYFV83v5k6LLOeLgSY0tv2WHBmAknu0kOHPijnYLThIldhd4i4MfoVbZnFh9yjOt6qoTB7sIkBxbcbJUZp77xvDaau03GJoyp+emGLbYBOr3BrA= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.237?) (john?m?cooper@67.143.164.116 with plain) by smtp111.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2005 15:36:01 -0000 Message-ID: <42E506D2.3080607@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:35:46 -0600 From: John Merryweather Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050721) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Igor Robul References: <200507211803.j6LI34dV005050@ferens.net> <20050721194500.W9208@fledge.watson.org> <20050721192613.GA61902@FS.denninger.net> <42E48967.1020909@speechpro.com> In-Reply-To: <42E48967.1020909@speechpro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Karl Denninger Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:36:03 -0000 Igor Robul wrote: > Karl Denninger wrote: > >> Ok, Robert, but then here's the question.... >> >> How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a >> production release, breaking it, with no path backwards to the working >> code? >> >> > I had not ANY problems with ATA on several mothersboards, both SMP and > uniproc. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The VIA SATA onboard controller on my server works (and has worked) flawlessly. I have two identical 80G Maxtor SATA drives connected to it and have had absolutely no problems and excellent performance. Even my Dell Inspirion 5100--with a few hiccups--has made great progress and is mostly functional. jmc