UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

[Tim Welch]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:00 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> Søren Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3j.diff-releng5.gz
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3j.diff-current.gz
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3j.tar.gz
> 
> New version that fixes known problems so far etc now available:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3k.diff-releng5.gz
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3k.diff-current.gz
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3k.tar.gz
> 
> The diffs hasn't changed, so for those that has already applied those 
> you can just untar the tarfile (still relative to /usr/src).
> 
> 
> Fixes include:
> 
> o	atapi-cd eject/close
> 
> o	SiI controllers lost some (slow) SATA disks in probe
> 
> o	panic when detaching disk not part of a RAID.
> 
> o	Cable detection failure on channels with both master and slave.
> 
> As always, enjoy and let me know how it goes...
> 

A problem still exists with 48-bit addressing. This url details a fix
I've been using for the last 4 months or so with no issues yet.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-October/008821.html

Thanks, 
Tim