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Date:      Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:49:08 +0200
From:      Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
To:        Tony Byrne <freebsd@byrnehq.com>
Cc:        Alan Jay <alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 
Message-ID:  <200507011149.j61Bn8Fp001492@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Tony Byrne <freebsd-current@byrnehq.com> of "Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:28:47 BST." <535978168.20050701112847@byrnehq.com> 

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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.



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