Re: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

Just a quick dATA point that I tested the patches against

# grep -i ata /var/run/dmesg.boot
atapci0: <VIA 82C686B UDMA100 controller> port 
0xc000-0xc00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
ad0: 38166MB <ST340014A/3.06> [77545/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
#
vs
% grep -i ata /var/run/dmesg.boot
atapci0: <VIA 82C686B UDMA100 controller> port 
0xc000-0xc00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ad0: 38166MB <Seagate ST340014A 3.06> at ata0-master UDMA100
ATA PseudoRAID loaded

On CURRENT


All seems to work as expected with virtually no change in performance, or 
at least as how bonnie shows it to be.


               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- 
--Random--
               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- 
--Seeks---
Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
Stock    1000 31851 86.6 41190 65.9 10585 15.2 19215 47.7 31084 19.5 177.2  1.7
III      1000 32897 88.3 40885 64.5 10596 15.3 19347 47.7 31096 19.2 178.0  1.6


Although why on the bootup is the geometry gone ?

	---Mike