Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:30:06 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sil3112a SATA Controller, current status Message-ID: <419D145E.8090108@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <p06110402bdc2b6a6d7f3@[128.113.24.47]> References: <f8646080041118045410a4629c@mail.gmail.com> <419CEFB9.7060604@DeepCore.dk> <p06110402bdc2b6a6d7f3@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > I am trying to pin down problems "FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out" > in a new PC that I have. I had some local shop build this for me, > and apparently there were "a few" miscommunications in what I > thought I asked for, and what they actually built. >=20 > The machine ended up with two SATA controllers: > atapci0: <SiI 3112 SATA150 controller> -- on the motherboard > atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> -- on a PCI card I think its the other way around, the VIA chip is part of the=20 motherboard chipset, the SiI is a "loose" PCI compatible chip. > The hard disk is connected to the PCI card. Would that be more > reliable quality hardware than the SiI3112? I'd say so. > Also, the disk is a Western Digital WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0/02.05D02 > 120-gig drive. I *thought* I was ordering a Seagate drive, but it is > quite likely that there was some confusion on that. Would that Western= > Digital SATA drive be a problem? I do have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 > hard drive that I could use (after shuffling a few things around). From observation I'd say that those drives that are native SATA devices = has significantly less problems than those that arent. --=20 -S=F8ren
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