freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA) RELENG_4

[Julian Elischer]

Doug Ambrisko wrote:

>Julian Elischer writes:
>| Doug, could you comit your patchsets to RELENG_4?
>
>I could but have not been given an okay from RE. 
>

Theoreticallty you do not need RE's permission at the moment. (though it 
would be nice)

> What I've proposed
>to do before is commit the base HW support without my RAID and other
>enhancements.  This is essentially taking the stuff from 5-current
>HW only bits to 4.X.  That would let people use the HW.  Then
>fix some ATA/FreeBSD bugs so machines don't hang and panic.  I don't 
>plan to bring in my RAID enhancements since then if people upgrade
>to 5.X/6.X they will lose functionality.
>
>Very little of the core ata code in 4.X has to change since I have
>compatibility macros to make it transparent.  The bug fixes tweak some
>of the ata core code.
>
>My employer would give me time to do this.
>
>| Doug Ambrisko wrote:
>|
>| >Dmitry Morozovsky writes:
>| >| On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
>| >|
>| >| DM> DA> There is:
>| >| DM> DA>    http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_7.patch
>| >| DM> DA> for 4.10.  That deals with Intel and Promise SATA stuff and
>| >| DM> DA> ata-raid fixes/enhancements.  It deals with legacy and enhanced mod
>es
>| >| DM> DA> for Intel SATA.
>| >| DM> DA>
>| >| DM> DA> A bunch of people have installed it and are using this.  A bunch of
>
>| >| DM> DA> our customers use it via our appliance.
>| >| DM>
>| >| DM> Wow, thanks! BTW, it seems some sio patches are slipped in by accident?
>| >|
>| >| BTW2: here is small patch to support Promise SATA PDC20376 controller found
> on
>| >| our Albatron MB
>| >
>| >[ Attachment, skipping... ]
>| >
>| >Thanks for the patch.  It will go in the next patch set.  I should make
>| >a new one fairly soon since I initially prevented the Promise stuff from
>| >using PIO but found out we need PIO for crash dumps.  I need to test
>| >the PIO change.  It was pretty trivial since there is already stuff
>| >to deal with this.
>
>Actually it looks like I did test it a while back so it should be ready
>to go if someone is interested in testing it to make sure the PCI ID's
>are right (Dmitry?).
>
>It's at:
>	http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_8.patch
>
>Thanks,
>
>Doug A.
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