From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 16:19:09 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 4D98516A420; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:19:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from news649@powersystemsdirect.com) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E0843D8E; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:18:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from news649@powersystemsdirect.com) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (c-24-1-170-82.hsd1.tx.comcast.net[24.1.170.82]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005072116185601200igo33e>; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:18:56 +0000 Message-ID: <42DFCAF1.8020701@powersystemsdirect.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:18:57 -0500 From: Steve User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <42DF2A8F.30202@powersystemsdirect.com> <20050721112230.A97888@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20050721112230.A97888@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA errors 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, 21 Jul 2005 16:19:09 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > 6.0 contains a significant re-write and update of the ATA driver, and > corrects a number of known problems with timeouts and reliability. > This rewrite is available as patches against 5.x, but has not been > committed because ATA is a very sensitive thing (lots of very diverse > and very broken hardware), and has had insufficient testing. If you > have test hardware available that's not in production, it would be > quite helpful if you could install 6.0-BETA2, once that comes out in > the next week or so, and see if the specific ATA problems you're > experiencing occur there. It's not impossible that the new ATA code > will be merged to 5.x, but I think we cannot do that until it has seen > a lot more exposure. If you search back through the mailing archives, > you should be able to find posts from Soren regarding the new ATA > patches, if you want to give them a try on 5.x. Yes, I will try and find those patches for 5, I do not have a free machine that exhibits the problem, but, I do have my disk cloned so a quick test of a patch should be simple and risk free over a weekend when I have time to mess around. If anyone has that link handy, please post. (for the patch) Steve