From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 17 20:49:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nazare.cin.ufpe.br (nazare.cin.ufpe.br [150.161.2.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2FE37B434 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:49:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by nazare.cin.ufpe.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5I3mFQ82839; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:48:15 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from rss@nazare.cin.ufpe.br) Received: from buique.cin.ufpe.br (buique [172.17.33.108]) by nazare.cin.ufpe.br (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with ESMTP id g5I3mD982831; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:48:14 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from rss@nazare.cin.ufpe.br) Received: from rss (helo=localhost) by buique.cin.ufpe.br with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17K9yX-0007H5-00; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:48:13 -0300 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:48:13 -0300 (BRT) From: Rossam Souza Silva To: Mike Jakubik Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , John Prince , Subject: RE: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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, 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message