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Re: Possible IDE corruption bug?



> On Oct 27, 2026, at 12:57 AM, Jeffrey S. Worley <technoid6502%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> The onboard ata driver is broken on NetBSD 11.  It is moribund on 10.1
> and below.  It is unfenced, Alpha requires memory barriers for ordered
> IO, the coder did not get that memo.

While a bug in the driver may or may certainly exist, you might want to take a few minutes to understand how the driver abstractions in NetBSD work before making such confident-yet-false statements.

-- thorpej



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