Tony, Interesting that you have seen different disks producing different timeout issues (or not) so far on my experiments with 4 different disks 2 SATA 2 IDE (different dises) is that the timeout error has appears on all of them.
Regads ALan > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Byrne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 5:12 PM > To: Dominic Marks > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re[2]: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan > S5350 > > Hello Dominic, > > DM> Do you see them with ATA mkIII as well? > > I tried the ATA mkIII patches a few weeks ago on one of servers, which > was suffering DMA TIMEOUTs, but they made no difference. > > This problem may only occur with certain combinations of controller > and SATA hard drive. For example, I have a workstation with an ICH5 > controller which had been frequently emitting TIMEOUT messages when it > had a 80Gb 7200k Seagate Barracuda SATA drive installed. As a test > this afternoon, I swapped out the Seagate for a new 250Gb Western > Digital SATA drive, and installed 5.4 RELEASE. The machine is now in > the process of building world, and I've yet to see any TIMEOUTs. > > 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]"
