From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 15:50:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D283416A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:50:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mkbuelow.net) Received: from luzifer.incubus.de (incubus.de [80.237.207.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2220943D5E for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:50:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mkbuelow.net) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (p54AAA533.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.170.165.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by luzifer.incubus.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7C932317; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:53:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (mkb@localhost.mkbuelow.net [127.0.0.1]) by drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j67Fp3Qs013677; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:51:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mkb@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net) Message-Id: <200507071551.j67Fp3Qs013677@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> From: Matthias Buelow To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: Message from "Marc G. Fournier" of "Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:21:20 -0300." <20050707121909.M940@ganymede.hub.org> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.84; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:51:03 +0200 Sender: mkb@mkbuelow.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA support in 5.x ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:50:35 -0000 "Marc G. Fournier" 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.