From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 22 6: 2:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 315AB15091 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 06:02:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA71397; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:02:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912221402.PAA71397@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Problems with the ATA-driver In-Reply-To: from Nick Hibma at "Dec 22, 1999 01:11:52 pm" To: n_hibma@webweaving.org (Nick Hibma) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:02:30 +0100 (CET) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White), havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl (Theo van Klaveren), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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