Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 21:58:27 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updated SATA support patches for Intel ICH & Promise cards Message-ID: <40994763.4090203@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040505194949.GA2443@VARK.homeunix.com> References: <200405041825.i44IPgVa021573@ambrisko.com> <4097F9EA.1080904@DeepCore.dk> <20040505124349.GA612@VARK.homeunix.com> <40990479.6070809@DeepCore.dk> <20040505194949.GA2443@VARK.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004, Sren Schmidt wrote: > >>David Schultz wrote: >> >>>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. >> >>What is your exact problem again ? I dont recall the details and my mail >>archive is not online sorry.. > > > I have two SATA drives that are mirrored via ccd(4). The > mirroring apparently introduced some sort of race that led to > problems, which started when ATAng was committed. The specific > symptoms changed as the ata driver evolved, and varied from kernel > panics in the best case and data corruption in the worst case. > But the details of the problem aren't as important as the fact > that some aspect of Doug's patch fixes them! Have you considered using atacontrol to create an ATA RAID instead ? Does that work ? on an unpatched kernel ? -- -Søren
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