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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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