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Date:      Wed, 5 May 2004 05:43:49 -0700
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "=?us-ascii:iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt" <sos@DeepCore.dk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Updated SATA support patches for Intel ICH & Promise cards
Message-ID:  <20040505124349.GA612@VARK.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <4097F9EA.1080904@DeepCore.dk>
References:  <200405041825.i44IPgVa021573@ambrisko.com> <4097F9EA.1080904@DeepCore.dk>

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On Tue, May 04, 2004, Sren Schmidt wrote:
> Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> >These patches have been updated to -current as of the past weekend.
> >They increase the robustness of SATA disk errors (media errors and
> >drive going away such as drives that spin up and down).  Also has
> >code to support hot swap on both controllers.
> >
> >This is only HW support and does not address other ata/FreeBSD issues.
> >That isn't quite right ... some ata changes have been made to avoid
> >panics in probes etc. to support the HW changes.
[...]
> I'm sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, but your work conflicts pretty 
> much head on with the way I want this to move along. However code to 
> read/write the RAID config (AMI way I'd guess) would be welcomed as I 
> only have the descriptions for that done, but no code yet...

The ata driver has not worked with my hardware for months, as I
reported to you last September.  With Doug's patches, things work
perfectly.  Therefore, I'd really appreciate it if you gave more
consideration to his work.  I would be happy to help merge them
with your changes if you'll allow me.



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