Give noise to a new significant milestone in ATA development.

48-bit addressing code works and appears to be stable enough to be put
in production.

Beta equipment to test this was kindly provided by Maxtor Corporation.

Approved by:	sos
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven 2001-11-03 15:41:22 +00:00
parent 0603e922d2
commit 10d2ae14b5
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00
svn path=/www/; revision=11111
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<news>
<cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
<cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
$FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.33 2001/11/02 12:48:13 nobutaka Exp $
$FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.34 2001/11/02 19:09:33 arr Exp $
</cvs:keyword>
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<month>
<name>November</name>
<day>
<name>3</name>
<event>
<p>Soren Schmidt, author of the ATA driver, tested a
new 160 GB ATA harddisk provided kindly by
<a href="http://www.maxtor.com">Maxtor Corporation</a>
with the new ATA specification's 48-bit addressing mode
support in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. The results show that the
code is stable and functions as it should and will be
backported to STABLE.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>2</name>

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<news>
<cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
<cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
$FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.33 2001/11/02 12:48:13 nobutaka Exp $
$FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.34 2001/11/02 19:09:33 arr Exp $
</cvs:keyword>
</cvs:keywords>
@ -29,6 +29,20 @@
<month>
<name>November</name>
<day>
<name>3</name>
<event>
<p>Soren Schmidt, author of the ATA driver, tested a
new 160 GB ATA harddisk provided kindly by
<a href="http://www.maxtor.com">Maxtor Corporation</a>
with the new ATA specification's 48-bit addressing mode
support in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. The results show that the
code is stable and functions as it should and will be
backported to STABLE.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>2</name>