SMP ATA woes on 6.0-RELEASE

[Mike Tancsa]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:28:59 -0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:
>
>Q: Is this a known bug ?
>Q: If it is, is it fixed in -STABLE ?

Not sure on either of the above specifically, but quite a bit of work
has gone into IRQ routing and the ata subsystem since 6.0R.  Your
problem sounds somewhat similar to what I was seeing on a Dell 4way
box back in August which was fixed in Sept 
http://groups.google.ca/group/muc.lists.freebsd.current/tree/browse_frm/thread/54cf58899efae7e1/fe550105a6e0276a?rnum=1&hl=en&q=freebsd+tancsa+pci&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fmuc.lists.freebsd.current%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F54cf58899efae7e1%2F49d7837901cb3e5d%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3Dfreebsd+tancsa+pci%26rnum%3D96%26hl%3Den%26#doc_fe550105a6e0276a

regardless, there are a lot of bugfixes since 6.0


>Q: If so - when is a good cvsup date that gives me a fixed ata driver with a
>"stable stable"

To today is quite stable.  The FreeBSD folks are preparing for a
release right now and what is in the tree works very  well.

	---Mike
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