From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 17 13:48:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC2F37B409 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 44C453198E1; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:48:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:48:25 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: John Prince Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release Message-ID: <20020617204825.GC25616@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: John Prince , stable@freebsd.org References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020617112839.030a9ff8@popmail.ct.lodgenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020617112839.030a9ff8@popmail.ct.lodgenet.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 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. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message