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Date:      Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:06:08 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@trigger.net>
Cc:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, "John Prince" <johnp@lodgenet.com>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020617190343.05ae7d90@192.168.0.12>
In-Reply-To: <HPEHJFKBNEHFPAOFMEDDOEOEDKAA.mikej@trigger.net>
References:  <20020617204825.GC25616@leviathan.inethouston.net>

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At 06:40 PM 6/17/2002 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:

>Out of curiosity, what great new things does the new ATA code offer? Nothing
>is really mentioned in the release
>notes, and I don't see any performance improvements or any other significant
>changes.

Driver support for a number of new controllers from Promise and HighPoint 
and the new very large drives IIRC as well as better support for IDE raid 
via the ar driver including IDE hot swap enclosures (see man ata and 
atacontrol)

         ---Mike
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