Re: UPDATE3: ATA mkIII official patches - please test!

From: Kevin Oberman <oberman_at_es.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:00:48 -0800
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:28:26 +0100
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Søren_Schmidt?= <sos_at_DeepCore.dk>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org
> 
> New version available for testing:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3m.diff-releng5.gz
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3m.diff-current.gz
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3m.tar.gz
> 
> This time the diff must be reapplied as there are new changes in there.
> 
> Items in this release:
> 
> o	Dumping to disk fixed.
> 
> o	PCCARD probing fixed.
> 
> o	PC98 probing and modules fixed.
> 
> o	Support for "atomic" composite ATA requests
> 
> o	Support for "addspare" to an ATA PseudoRAID array
> 
> o	Support for "rebuild" of an ATA PseudoRAID array.
> 	Note that this is now done differently from the old system as
> 	the rebuild is now done piggybacked on read requests to the
> 	array, so atacontrol simply starts a background "dd" to rebuild
> 	the array.
> 
> If I dont get any significant showstopper reports this is what will get 
> committed to -current soon (plus what I might get done until then of new > 
> features).
> 
> This WARNING still applies:
> 
> > One warning applies to both this and the last snapshot. I accidentially> 
> > released the RAID5 test code I had in there which allows to apparently > 
> > use a RAID5 array. However it *ONLY* reads and writes the data part, it>  
> > does *NOT* maintain the parity part. That means it will trash a RAID5 
> > array for later real use as the parity wont match the data one there.
> > Since the code is "out there" I've decided to let it stay, as it allows>  
> > for testing of getting and using the metadata etc..
> 
> I'll probably just disable that code when it goes into -current but for 
> now its in there for testing purposes.
> 
> As usual use at your own risk, but feedback on this is very welcomed.
> Big thanks to all those that has participated so far!
> 
> Enjoy!

This is great! Thanks for the work.

Any report on whether Thomas has ATAPICAM ready to work with this? While
I know a lot of people don't care about it, quite a few use tools which
depend on it and its loss can be a real problem, especially if it
happens in Stable. (I realize stable is not an issue at this time, but I
hope it will be soon as ATA mkIII seems like a really big improvement.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman_at_es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Received on Tue Mar 22 2005 - 17:00:49 UTC

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