SATA support in 5.x ... ?

[Guy Helmer]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> How stable is it right now?  I was talking with a friend yesterday 
> about it, and he mentioned something about 3 re-write of the code over 
> 2 releases, and that each one wasn't backwards compatible with the 
> other, so you ended up with corrupted file systems ...
>
> I'm looking at upgrading my only SATA server to 5.x, since the 4.x 
> that is currently running on it is getting hangs whenever load is put 
> onto the drives :(
>
It's working fine on our basic h/w platform (Supermicro P4SCE w/ Intel 
ICH5 SATA controller, single WD 80G drive) under FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4.  I 
don't understand the claim that there isn't backward compatibility, 
unless that refers to the continually improving ATA RAID support as 
Søren keeps working on the driver.

Guy

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Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Principal System Architect
Palisade Systems, Inc.