Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:02:30 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: n_hibma@webweaving.org (Nick Hibma) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White), havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl (Theo van Klaveren), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with the ATA-driver Message-ID: <199912221402.PAA71397@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912221307110.983-100000@localhost> from Nick Hibma at "Dec 22, 1999 01:11:52 pm"
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It seems Nick Hibma wrote: > > > Mentioning it in the manpage should be sufficient I guess. Blacklisting > > > devices sounds like a good idea if tey fail to work correctly in many > > > cases. > > > > The problem being how to get a list that is "good enough" for the > > majority of cases. > > I'd like to see it the other way around: Make sure it works in all cases > and _then_ try to narrow down the bad cases. Being part of GENERIC > implies that it works in all cases, even if performance is lacking in > most cases. After all you won't be able to recompile a kernel that works > for you if you are not able to install FreeBSD in the first place. Yeah, but last time I did that you should have seen the number of complaints I received :) However I hope to have fixed most of the problems with drives setup from the BIOS to a DMA mode, but run by ata in PIO mode. Then I'll add the restrictions again, together with a way to force a given mode on a drive. That way you can hurt yourself if you think your drive can do more than it supports :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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