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From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
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Subject: Re: SATA disks suddenly stop working [Update]
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:29:21 +0200
Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:22:12 +0100
> > Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> I rebooted and turned off MSI.  I'll monitor the situation to see
> >> whether that helps.
> > 
> > Turning off MSI seems to have fixed it.
> > 
> > Buggy chipset, I suppose.
> 
> All I know that MSI works fine for my ICH8M AHCI. I haven't tested it 
> anywhere else yet.
> 

Well, now we know that it doesn't appear to work reliably on this controller:
atapci0@pci0:0:17:0:    class=0x010601 card=0xb0021458 chip=0x43911002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = SATA

---
Gary Jennejohn