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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:29:37 +0200
From:      Alex <freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl>
To:        Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re[2]: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release
Message-ID:  <1453280927.20020618182937@dds.nl>
In-Reply-To: <E17KJst-0003up-00@smart.eusc.inter.net>
References:  <E17KJst-0003up-00@smart.eusc.inter.net>

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Hello/Beste Matthias,

Tuesday, June 18, 2002, 4:23:02 PM, you wrote:

MS> Hello all,

MS> I haven't read the whole thread so far, but...

MS> I would encourage some posters to cool down a bit. There are only a few 
MS> types of ATA-Disks that support Tagged Queuing and they all work with 
MS> Write Cache nearly as fast as with WC+TQ.

Quote to someone: "Why didn't you express these concerns for the past
few months?" This is what got me a little heated. The new code caused
problems for me just after the 4.5 release. I did mail these, but only
a few mailed back. With either a nice reply that i probly was on the
wrong mail list, or that the had this problem to.

MS> So, in the end I think it's a at least possible decision to release 4.6
MS> with ATA 'as is'. It's switched off by default and shouldn't frustrate 
MS> any new users. It should be stated clearly and 'loud', that ATA Tagged 
MS> Queuing in not working on many chipsets and that the situation is 
MS> expected to improve during 4.6-STABLE.

That/s what it stated in the i386 release notes. I didn't enable this,
and jet i got a system that doesn't work.

MS> And BTW: I don't think that it's helpful to focus on that ATA TQ-Issue 
MS> so hard and to imply (at least between the lines of some postings) that 
MS> Soren's driver is all crap. It's obviously the best driver we *have* 
MS> and obviously the most knowledgeable ATA-Programmer who's working for 
MS> 'our' FreeBSD and we should appreciate that.

I don't say its a bad one, but i don't go as far as to say that its the
best at this moment.


-- 
Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet,
Alex


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