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Date:      Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:50:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Chris Dempsey <chrisdempsey@yahoo.com>
To:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, John Prince <johnp@lodgenet.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release
Message-ID:  <20020617205033.72524.qmail@web13408.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020617204825.GC25616@leviathan.inethouston.net>

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David,

There seems to be a variety of problems using AOpen
high speed ATAPI CD-ROMs, and possibly other makes and
models as well.

Search recent -stable for ATAPI, 4.6, BIG_READ, etc.

Regards,

Chris Dempsey


--- "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:38:01AM -0500, John
> Prince wrote:
> > I have to say, I am a bit disappointed in the 4.6
> release, as well as the
> > way problems have been identified, and swept under
> the carpet..
> 
> Why didn't you express these concerns for the past
> few months?
> 
> > 
> > It appears the ATA code was MFC, and does not
> perform as one would expect..
> > In simpler terms, it does not work correctly.
> 
> We lose too much functionality to back out the MFC,
> the only known 
> problems that I know about are ATA tags which can be
> disabled.  Could 
> you please specify which problems you are talking
> about?
> 
> > 4.6 release is "Broke" and will not work with many
> existing hardware 
> > configurations.
> > 4.5 release worked..
> 
> Please explain which configurations are broke due to
> 4.6-RELEASE
> 
> -- 
> David W. Chapman Jr.
> dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services,
> Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
> dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer
> <www.FreeBSD.org>
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