>The VIA SATA onboard controller on my server works (and has worked) >flawlessly. I have two identical 80G Maxtor SATA drives connected to it >and have had absolutely no problems and excellent performance. Even my >Dell Inspirion 5100--with a few hiccups--has made great progress and is >mostly functional.
The ATA (definitely not SATA) controller on my Dell Latitude C840 laptop has READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA problems, maybe 2-3 times a day unless I turn off DMA. It hangs for 3-4 seconds, logs errors, then proceeds. It isn't heavily loaded. I tried using Soren's ATA mkIII patches, and now it likes to panic about that same frequency instead of hanging, so I'm going back to the stock RELENG_5 config next chance I get. It's one of these: atapci0: <Intel ICH3 UDMA100 controller> port 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x 3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 -- J. Porter Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
