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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:48:13 -0300 (BRT)
From:      Rossam Souza Silva <rss@cin.ufpe.br>
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:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206180046550.1722-100000@buique.cin.ufpe.br>
In-Reply-To: <HPEHJFKBNEHFPAOFMEDDOEOEDKAA.mikej@trigger.net>

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On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Mike Jakubik wrote:

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
>  [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David W. Chapman
>  Jr.
>  Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 4:48 PM
>  To: John Prince
>  Cc: stable@freebsd.org
>  Subject: Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release
>
> > > 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?
>
> 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.

Begins reading atacontrol(8). You can read the source code too.

Rossam.

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