SMP ATA woes on 6.0-RELEASE

[Steve Coles]

Many thanks for the positive replies, the suggestions to cvsup to today were
spot-on: the ata modules now load fine from loader.conf on the MP machine. 

To answer the troll: it's fast, free, proven, and they were $50 on eBay.

Cheers

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike at sentex.net] 
Sent: 14 February 2006 00:51
To: Steve Coles
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: SMP ATA woes on 6.0-RELEASE

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/thre
ad/54cf58899efae7e1/fe550105a6e0276a?rnum=1&hl=en&q=freebsd+tancsa+pci&_done
=%2Fgroup%2Fmuc.lists.freebsd.current%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F54cf58899efae7
e1%2F49d7837901cb3e5d%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3Dfreebsd+tancsa+pci%26rnum%3D96%26hl%3
Den%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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