From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 17 16: 3:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl2.sentex.ca (vinyl2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5510937B403 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from house.sentex.net (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by vinyl2.sentex.ca (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5HN3fdd044155 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:03:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020617190343.05ae7d90@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:06:08 -0400 To: "Mike Jakubik" From: Mike Tancsa Subject: RE: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , "John Prince" , In-Reply-To: References: <20020617204825.GC25616@leviathan.inethouston.net> 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 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message