Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:51:03 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA support in 5.x ... ? Message-ID: <200507071551.j67Fp3Qs013677@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> of "Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:21:20 -0300." <20050707121909.M940@ganymede.hub.org>
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes: >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 running on an ICH6 controller (no RAID) with a Seagate disk and don't have any problems, except frequent ATA timeouts at boot (only at boot, before mounting the root fs) but that appeared only after I updated to 5.4-STABLE on June 21 (never seen it before with 5.4-RELEASE or 5.4-STABLE before that date). Once it sucessfully managed to mount its root fs (typically about every 2nd boot attempt), I see no further problems. >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 :( If you have a server with IDE or SATA, you might also be interested in the write barrier thread that's going on on -questions. mkb.
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