From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 17:16:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB5116A41C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:16:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk) Received: from dswu232.btconnect.com (dswu232.btconnect.com [193.113.154.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 284D643D58 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:16:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk) Received: from c2bthomr03.btconnect.com (actually host 211.73.73.194.in-addr.arpa) by dswu232.btconnect.com with SMTP (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:15:07 +0100 Received: from AJDELL9200 (213-78-6-149.uk.onetel.net.uk [213.78.6.149]) by c2bthomr03.btconnect.com (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id BXL87622; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:14:28 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200507011714.BXL87622@c2bthomr03.btconnect.com> From: "Alan Jay" To: "'Tony Byrne'" , "'Dominic Marks'" Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:14:59 +0100 Organization: Cyclops Vision Limited MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcV+V6hAW6BWtvfYQd6DkQBxyoTCKQAAjB1Q X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: <1148375339.20050701171213@byrnehq.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Re[2]: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:16:39 -0000 Tony, Interesting that you have seen different disks producing different timeout issues (or not) so far on my experiments with 4 different disks 2 SATA 2 IDE (different dises) is that the timeout error has appears on all of them. Regads ALan > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Byrne [mailto:freebsd-current@byrnehq.com] > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 5:12 PM > To: Dominic Marks > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk > Subject: Re[2]: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan > S5350 > > Hello Dominic, > > DM> Do you see them with ATA mkIII as well? > > I tried the ATA mkIII patches a few weeks ago on one of servers, which > was suffering DMA TIMEOUTs, but they made no difference. > > This problem may only occur with certain combinations of controller > and SATA hard drive. For example, I have a workstation with an ICH5 > controller which had been frequently emitting TIMEOUT messages when it > had a 80Gb 7200k Seagate Barracuda SATA drive installed. As a test > this afternoon, I swapped out the Seagate for a new 250Gb Western > Digital SATA drive, and installed 5.4 RELEASE. The machine is now in > the process of building world, and I've yet to see any TIMEOUTs. > > Regards, > > Tony. > > -- > Tony Byrne >