Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:32:28 +0100 (CET) From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PLEASE TEST - ATA driver patch (ATANG)... Message-ID: <200302131332.h1DDWSuP047104@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030213133036.GA13666@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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It seems David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>: > > I've prepared a patch that brings the ATA driver to the next level. > > > > This is mainly to prepare for other platforms which demanded > > some changes to the driver infrastructure. > > > > It also fixes lots of outstanding problems and adds support several > > new chipsets including SiS (thanks to Christoph Kukulies for > > sponsoring a brand new SiS648 based board making that possible!) > > > > Please test it out and remember that this is WIP, so use protective > > glasses and rubber gloves, you have been warned. > > Cool. I'll try these patches out this weekend. Is there a chance > you could integrate the other half of the patch I sent you in > January---the part that sends a FLUSH CACHE command to all disks > at shutdown time? This measure should ensure that disks with > large caches write out all data before the power to them is cut. > Or are you working on a better way of solving this problem? > > There's also the problem jjramsey reported where some (perhaps > broken) hardware required a small delay following the completion > of an IDENTIFY command before the correct data are available to > read, but that problem doesn't concern me directly. I have a list a mile long of fixes/suggestions/hacks, I'll get to them but this needes to be done first to move along... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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