Totally agree - I have 2 idential machines that have the same problem And have tried alternate hard disks all of which exhibit the same Problem.
I would agree with you that the ICH5 must be common and the Tyan S3530 (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigeri7320r_spec.html ) with the Intel 6300SEB which I would have thought (as you say) was very common. I did notice that Tyan offer the Adaptec AIC-8110 SATA I controller as an add on module and I wondered if that might be supported but it doesn't seem by that number to be on the release list (any thoughts). > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Byrne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:29 AM > To: Alan Jay > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 > with FreeBSD 5.4 > > Hello Alan, > > AJ> There have been a number of comments and queries about ATA problems and > SATA > AJ> problems with 5.4 but no views as to if this is a real problem. > > I have to agree. I've had nothing but trouble with various Intel > boards with Intel ICH5 controllers and SATA hard disks under FreeBSD > and yet the problem either doesn't seem to be widespread and isn't > recognized by the community in general. I find that strange since the > ICH5 must be common in the field along with SATA disks from Western > Digital. I would have believed faulty hardware to be the cause, but I > have *three* machines that are capable of generating DMA TIMEOUTs > while reading or writing SATA disks. > > Regards, > > Tony. > > -- > Tony Byrne > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
