Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

Marius Strobl marius at alchemy.franken.de
Wed Apr 20 21:02:21 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:57:47PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> With 9.0 release approaching quickly, I believe it the best time now to
> manage migration from legacy ata(4) ATA to the new CAM-based one. New
> ATA code present in the tree for more then a year now, used by many
> people and proved it's superior functionality and reliability. The only
> major issue with it now is the migration process. Sooner or later we
> have to pass it, but due to major UI and API changes we can't do it
> after 9.0 release. So I propose to do it the next Sunday (April 24) to
> have as much time for troubleshooting as possible.
> 
> I have prepared the following patch to do it:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ata_switch.patch
> 

Could you please add descriptions of the controllers supported by
ahci(4), mvs(4) and siis(4) to the kernel configuration files and
preserve alphabetical ordering, i.e. list ata(4) after ahci(4)?

Marius



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