From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 12 9:26:58 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 4599E37B400 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD7943E6A for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:26:54 -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 33C61251CF; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:26:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: MODE_SENSE_BIG - Any news on this being fixed? From: Josh Paetzel Reply-To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net Cc: Jacob Rhoden , Seahawk , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1029145291.279.6.camel@heater.vladsempire.net> References: <200208121352.03021.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <1029145291.279.6.camel@heater.vladsempire.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 12 Aug 2002 11:25:17 +0000 Message-Id: <1029151520.229.4.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 09:41, Josh Paetzel wrote: > 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 I guess reading questions before stable is a poor idea. Code freeze is not a ways off. :) Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message