I'm resigning as ATA maintainer with immediate effect.

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus at eternamente.info> wrote:
>
> On Sun, March 1, 2009 12:13, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> At 09:46 AM 3/1/2009, Søren Schmidt wrote:
>>>Its been a mixed bag of marbles all these years of doing ATA, but I'm
>>>pretty certain I wont miss it :)
>>
>> Hi Soren,
>>          Thanks for the great contributions over
>> the years!  The ata subsystem has always been a
>> very stable and functional part of FreeBSD for
>> me.  Apart for some bleeding edge hardware (and
>> broken hardware), I never had to worry about
>> issues related to ATA.  It all just worked, and
>> worked well thanks to your efforts.
>>
>>          ---Mike
>
> I'm not as old as many here in dealing with FreeBSD (I feel sorry for
> this, should come to the beastie side before) but I must agree with Mike
> above. From Pentium I to sparc64 (I had one of these in a lab at college
> that no linux could make it work - any mount /cdrom would freeze it -
> FreeBSD 6.0 straight from cd made it a great svn+http server as it is up
> to now) could always run and just use it. Solid as a rock. Thanks, and
> thanks :)
>
> matheus

Soren,
    Thanks for the help in the past with your work, and I didn't even
mind when you slapped me around for my ICH RAID comments ~1 year ago
:).
    Good luck and keep in touch.
Thanks,
-Garrett