> Hello Jan, > > Friday, April 14, 2006, 2:31:00 AM, you wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > Reading from the HDD is killing GUI performance on > >> > the iMac, it seems... > >> > > > >> > > >> > There's an (supposedly dangerously) hacked ata > >> > driver floating around > >> > hat makes this work OK. Please contact me off-line if > >> > you'd like a > >> > copy of it. The bug that covers this is: > >> > > >> > 5031379 Toshiba MK6021GAS falls back to pio on HP > >> > >> > >> Your offering Juergen Keil a dangerous closed driver on an open solaris l > ist. > >> Now what's wrong with this picture? > >> > > JSE> The ata driver in question is open: > > JSE> > JSE> http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/uts/intel/io/dktp/cont > roller/ata/ > > JSE> The source to the hacked driver however is another story. The > JSE> developer who implemented it left the company (Sun) before putting it > JSE> back. So it's not closed-source as much as it's lost-source. > > JSE> Also, the offer is open to anyone willing to risk their data to such > JSE> a driver. The consequences of getting the arbitration on the single > JSE> DMA buffer wrong aren't potential, but guaranteed massive > JSE> unrecoverable data-corruption. > > JSE> So, do you want a copy? Keep in mind that YMMV. > > > The bug id is the one I submitted - I used this 'hacked' ata driver on > my laptop for quite some time and must say it worked ok (no data loss, > etc.). However it stopped to working somewhere around b35 I belive > (couldn't load a module due to unresolved symbols) - it wasn't a big > deal for me anymore 'coz I got a new notebook and with this one ata > driver works ok out of the box. > > So do you offer new recompiled version or the old binary since it > might not work anymore...
The one I have works under build 36 on the iMac. -jan _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
