special test request for 6.1-BETA1 on ATA disks

Wilko Bulte wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Wed Feb 15 23:09:07 PST 2006


On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 05:22:36PM -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote..
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >Folks,  
> >
> >I am getting the strong impression that there is something hosed
> >related to ATA at least on the DS10 and DS10L.  Test installs 
> >on ATA disks work fine, but the first boot of the installed disk
> >fails miserably, typically the symptom is that the first shell won't
> >start or similar.  I got:
> >  
> Speaking of ATA, is there any chance of getting the ATA DMA bug fixed? 

What ATA DMA bug?  

Soren has MFC-ed has most if not all of the latest ATA code to 6 

> I've been forced to run 5.2.1 on my PC164SX because of it...



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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org


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