atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 08:07:13AM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> Bruce Cran wrote:
>> I'm also seeing this problem on my amd64 7.1-PRERELEASE system:
>>
>>> atacontrol list
>> ATA channel 0:
>>     Master: acd0 <HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GSA-T11N/A102> ATA/ATAPI revision 5
>>     Slave:       no device present
>> atacontrol: ioctl(IOCATADEVICES): Device not configured
>>
>>
>> I've attached the dmesg, and truss output from "atacontrol list".
>
> This is known problem and it fixed in CURRENT.
> You need to apply this patch:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/atacontrol/atacontrol.c.diff?r1=1.47;r2=1.48
>
> I cc'ed person, who commited this fix.
> Hi, Poul-Henning, I think it should be MFCed before release.

I agree, it should be MFC'd.

Cute bug too; never would've guessed it.  Saves me from the effort of
trying to get kgdb over serial working and all that jazz.  :-)

Thanks, Andrey!

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