Updated SATA support patches for Intel ICH & Promise cards

[David Schultz]

On Tue, May 04, 2004, Sren Schmidt wrote:
> Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> >These patches have been updated to -current as of the past weekend.
> >They increase the robustness of SATA disk errors (media errors and
> >drive going away such as drives that spin up and down).  Also has
> >code to support hot swap on both controllers.
> >
> >This is only HW support and does not address other ata/FreeBSD issues.
> >That isn't quite right ... some ata changes have been made to avoid
> >panics in probes etc. to support the HW changes.
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> I'm sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, but your work conflicts pretty 
> much head on with the way I want this to move along. However code to 
> read/write the RAID config (AMI way I'd guess) would be welcomed as I 
> only have the descriptions for that done, but no code yet...

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.