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> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
Message-
> From: Tony Byrne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:29 AM
> To: Alan Jay
> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350
> with FreeBSD 5.4
>
> Hello Alan,
>
> AJ>
Tony Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 he
Hello Alan,
AJ> There have been a number of comments and queries about ATA problems and SATA
AJ> problems with 5.4 but no views as to if this is a real problem.
I have to agree. I've had nothing but trouble with various Intel
boards with Intel ICH5 controllers and SATA hard disks under FreeBSD
an
I suppose the question is was there a problem with the Tyan S5350 motherboard
and its ATA controller - I know that two identical motherboards with different
hard disks exhibit the same problem. And if so why is it that there has been
little on these lists about problems with the chipset which i
