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ATAng Driver Preview for FreeBSD

Posted by michael on from the some-data-corruption-expected dept.

Dan writes "Soeren Schmidt announces the availability of the first preview release of ATAng drivers for FreeBSD. Before these rather radical changes to the ATA driver hits the tree, here is the opportunity to test them out, give useful feedback and for the depending subsytems to adjust to the new ways of things (burncd & atapicam are good examples). These drivers provide the framework for supporting new ATA controllers that have facilities for chaining commands and HW XOR's etc. These changes also facilitate merge of ATA and ATAPI code, as well make full use of fx Promise's new chips."

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  1. Sveet by craig2787 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is good, one thing off the TODO list! Thats assuming its good, which I'm sure it is; I've never had problems with the ATA driver (only the devices themselves). In fact, I bought a broken (!) disk off of ebay, and freebsd detected that it sucked, and "removed it from config." The box kept humming along like nothing happened. It was sveet.

  2. Re:Sveet (more action) by craig2787 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Let me elaborate: I newfs'ed the disk, started copying data to it, and it started failing. FreeBSD umounted it and the whole nine yards. cp exited; otherwise nothing `bad' happened. As mentioned, it was sveet.

  3. Not to be biased.... by craig2787 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ....but the articles in the BSD section are often far more interesting than the crap on the front page. They `matter' a lot more. Who cares what Bond would use for wireless hacking.