Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

From: Marius Strobl <marius_at_alchemy.franken.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:51:15 +0200
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:57:47PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> With 9.0 release approaching quickly, I believe it the best time now to
> manage migration from legacy ata(4) ATA to the new CAM-based one. New
> ATA code present in the tree for more then a year now, used by many
> people and proved it's superior functionality and reliability. The only
> major issue with it now is the migration process. Sooner or later we
> have to pass it, but due to major UI and API changes we can't do it
> after 9.0 release. So I propose to do it the next Sunday (April 24) to
> have as much time for troubleshooting as possible.
> 
> I have prepared the following patch to do it:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ata_switch.patch
> 

Could you please add descriptions of the controllers supported by
ahci(4), mvs(4) and siis(4) to the kernel configuration files and
preserve alphabetical ordering, i.e. list ata(4) after ahci(4)?

Marius
Received on Wed Apr 20 2011 - 19:02:21 UTC

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