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Date:      Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:48:25 -0500
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        John Prince <johnp@lodgenet.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release
Message-ID:  <20020617204825.GC25616@leviathan.inethouston.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020617112839.030a9ff8@popmail.ct.lodgenet.com>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020617112839.030a9ff8@popmail.ct.lodgenet.com>

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On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:38:01AM -0500, John Prince wrote:
> 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..

Why didn't you express these concerns for the past few months?

> 
> It appears the ATA code was MFC, and does not perform as one would expect..
> In simpler terms, it does not work correctly.

We lose too much functionality to back out the MFC, the only known 
problems that I know about are ATA tags which can be disabled.  Could 
you please specify which problems you are talking about?

> 4.6 release is "Broke" and will not work with many existing hardware 
> configurations.
> 4.5 release worked..

Please explain which configurations are broke due to 4.6-RELEASE

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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