From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 12 7:43: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3915337B400 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9B143E6A for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:43:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: from heater.vladsempire.net (12-218-27-215.client.mchsi.com [12.218.27.215]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B41D251CF; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:43:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: MODE_SENSE_BIG - Any news on this being fixed? From: Josh Paetzel Reply-To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net To: Jacob Rhoden Cc: Seahawk , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200208121352.03021.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> References: <200208121352.03021.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 12 Aug 2002 09:41:29 +0000 Message-Id: <1029145291.279.6.camel@heater.vladsempire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 03:52, Jacob Rhoden wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:44, you wrote: > > I have the same problem, I guess I'm waiting for 4.6.2 to be released > > (couple weeks?). I've been told that the problem should be fixed in that > > version. > > As I understand it though, changes are made in the 4.6-STABLE branch to test > things, before it becomes a release. Since its not fixed yet in stable then I > would assume no code has been submitted which could fixes it. (Or perhaps > there has been but it doesnt fix it in this case?). > > Regards, > Jacob > > > Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 9844 6102 > ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au > Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I've had CDROMS of various types that have given me the read_big error ever since support for IDE CDROMS became available. (2.1.5 was beta support iirc). I used to submit prs and so forth to try and get them to work, through this I've come to understand that the FreeBSD ad driver is written according to the IDE "standard" and it's the drives themselves that have wrong BIOS code. If you have a drive that just plain doesn't work correctly, and never has worked correctly, I doubt 4.6.2 will fix it. If your drive worked fine, and then updating to 4.6 broke it, then 4.6.2 will probably fix it. As far as the code being in -STABLE, code freeze for 4.6.2 is a ways off yet. My guess is the people working on it are still testing fixes and so forth. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message