From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 18 9:28:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C1B37B406 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GXWTS102.QFO; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:28:49 +0200 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:29:37 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1453280927.20020618182937@dds.nl> To: Matthias Schuendehuette Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re[2]: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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