ATAng: completely broken? Trouble with HPT370 on 4.9RC3

From: Gabriel Ambuehl (gaml_at_buz.ch)
Date: 10/26/03

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    ATAng seems to cause nothing but trouble for me. It won't recognize
    HPT370 arrays at all (whereas older 5.1 Kernels work perfectly) and
    just goes on complaining it can't mount root from it. Promise RAID is
    somewhat better (can mount root from it but goes on telling me one of
    the subdisks is down when it clearly isn't) and finally it doesn't seem
    to even recognize disks connected to a VIA VT8325 southbridge at all.
    Silicon Image SATA seems to work at times (no RAID at all though) but
    then starts throwing timeouts under make buildworld loads whereas CVSUP
    works nicely as far as I can tell.

    Further, 4.9RC3 also gives me headaches with HPT370 but seems to work ok with
    Promise RAID, didn't try SATA or VT8325 so far. I'd definitely vote
    for delaying 4.9 until some more people have beaten on the ATA drivers
    in there (I don't have any Intel machines so I can't check those chipsets).

    I'll try the same system with 4.8 later today and report if its the
    hardware or the software (I'd guess the latter as older 5.1 builds
    worked nicely).

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