ATA driver update for 7.2RELEASE available

[Søren Schmidt]

On 15Jul, 2009, at 11:33 , Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:

> Søren Schmidt wrote:
>> Over the past months I've gotten huge amounts of requests for ATA  
>> related things, so I've whipped up what I use here for FreeBSD 7.2- 
>> Release.
>> This is a total replacement of the ATA driver, modulerized as in - 
>> current, but based on my WIP not from what might have happend to - 
>> current since I gave up maintainership.
>> There is a number of new chipsets supported in here that I dont  
>> think is in any of the official sources (havn't checked in quite  
>> some time though), mostly newish ATI, nVidia and Marvell chips  
>> (yeah those buggers with both ATA & SATA ports).
>> You can find and install.sh script and a tarball of the needed  
>> files at:
>> http://www.deepcore.dk/pub/ATA
>> Put both in /usr/src and run install.sh.
>> As I dont subscribe to any of the mailing lists nor does my  
>> FreeBSD.org mail address seem to work anymore, you will need to  
>> reply to me directly if needed.
>> As always - Enjoy!
>> -Søren
>
> i think i'm dumb, but can you tell me how can atapicam be enabled  
> with this implementation of ata? i couldn't still find a way :(


You could just grap atapi-cam.c from stock 7.2 and use that I guess  
(as a module or compiled in), newer used it though...

-Søren
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