ehalf Of Matthias
> Buelow
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 12:49 PM
> To: Tony Byrne
> Cc: Alan Jay; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350
> with FreeBSD 5.4
>
> Tony Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
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>
Tony Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>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.
In my case he
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
an
