Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:49:38 -0500 From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA support in 5.x ... ? Message-ID: <42CD4F12.6060408@palisadesys.com> In-Reply-To: <20050707121909.M940@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050707121909.M940@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > How stable is it right now? I was talking with a friend yesterday > about it, and he mentioned something about 3 re-write of the code over > 2 releases, and that each one wasn't backwards compatible with the > other, so you ended up with corrupted file systems ... > > I'm looking at upgrading my only SATA server to 5.x, since the 4.x > that is currently running on it is getting hangs whenever load is put > onto the drives :( > It's working fine on our basic h/w platform (Supermicro P4SCE w/ Intel ICH5 SATA controller, single WD 80G drive) under FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4. I don't understand the claim that there isn't backward compatibility, unless that refers to the continually improving ATA RAID support as Søren keeps working on the driver. Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Principal System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.
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