Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:18:57 -0500 From: Steve <news649@powersystemsdirect.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA errors Message-ID: <42DFCAF1.8020701@powersystemsdirect.com> In-Reply-To: <20050721112230.A97888@fledge.watson.org> References: <42DF2A8F.30202@powersystemsdirect.com> <20050721112230.A97888@fledge.watson.org>
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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
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