Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:38:49 +0100 From: "Alan Jay" <alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk> To: "'Matthias Buelow'" <mkb@incubus.de>, "'Tony Byrne'" <freebsd@byrnehq.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <200507011438.BVQ05742@c2bthomr04.btconnect.com> In-Reply-To: <200507011149.j61Bn8Fp001492@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
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I thought that as well. My machine is using a Tyan motherbaord with the Intel 6300SEB and I thought that was a reasnably conservative choice of motherboard. I don't know if this is a hint not to use SATA/IDE controllers any more but there are lots of occasions when it is more than enough power to be going on with. What is annoying is that there doesn't seem to be enough in the way of problem reports to say this is not supported so we know we are on to a loosing streak and need to find an alternate type of hardware. Does anyone know if the "Adaptec AIC-8110 SATA I" controller, which Tyan offer, as an add on module is supported. The release notes which I have checked do not mention this number. But hten this is probably a part number and not the chip number. Thanks. > -----Original Message----- > From: mkb@mkbuelow.net [mailto:mkb@mkbuelow.net] On Behalf 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 <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.
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