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Subject: Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release
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> John Prince <johnp@lodgenet.com> 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..
> 
> It appears the ATA code was MFC, and does not perform as one 
> would expect..
> In simpler terms, it does not work correctly.
> 
> Several people have reported having problems with ATAPI cdrom, 
> as well as problems with IDE drives and th3e ATA driver(s), since 
> March.  I read a few threads indicating it was being looked into, 
> however it appears nothing was fixed.

First up, apologies if this arrives in HTML (at work using webmail on pop account).

On this subject, I have been having the READ_BIG problem with my CD-RW too 
but my main problem is with a Seagate Travan 5 TapeStor drive slaved on the 
same controller installed last week (running 4.6-RC).  It refuses to exit 
operations, hanging in 'uninterruptible wait'.  I have tested it in another machine 
with Win2k, FBSD 4.4 and 4.5 and the drive works OK with those OSes.

Whether this is related to the CD/ATA problem or a problem with the machine, I 
don't know.  What I would like is some newbie(ish)* help on extracting useful 
information about the problem (apart from dmesg and kernel config).

I am happy to help FreeBSD if anyone is happy to help me learn how to 
contribute in a useful way.


Ian

* As in new to debugging kernel stuff.

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