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Subject: Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350
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Tony Byrne <freebsd-current@byrnehq.com> 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 here, it's ICH6 and Seagate. Normally this is a good
combination that should work flawlessly... I mean, you can't get
more conservative than an Intel chipset and a Seagate disk.

mkb.