[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce A. Mah) writes: > We'll be doing another release candidate (4.6-RC4...for various > reasons
I appreciate this. > there won't be a 4.6-RC3) on Monday, in which we hope to see the major > remaining issues addressed. We encourage you to see the testing page > for this release at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/qa.html It says ata(4) tags problems were related to motherboard-based ATA channels. I see that Søren's patch to fix the panic on boot that I observed has now been merged into 4-STABLE, however, it seems as though the "timeout and fall-back to PIO" issue is still unfixed in 4-STABLE. My main board, a Gigabyte 7ZX-R rev. 1.0, offers four ATA channels. Two are driven by the south bridge, VIA KT133 (VT82C686 stuff), the other two are driven by a Promise PDC-20265R (in UDMA/100 mode). IIRC, this Promise chip is in the "doesn't to tags, but freezes" blacklist. VIA chips are not blacklisted, and AFAICS, tagged queueing not working on my system is a regression over 4.5-RELEASE which had working tagged queueing. Søren said he was able to reproduce the timeout problem with tags, and we should expect a fix "real soon now". This is the only list I follow, but I haven't yet seen anything ata-related since. What's the release engineering team's opinion on this ata issue? Will 4.6 be delayed until the tagged stuff is fixed? Will 4.6 ship with ata tagged stuff disabled altogether? Or will 4.6 ship with ata as it is today, with the risk that it breaks some systems 4.5 ata did work on? -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
