Intel ICH5 SATA on 5.1

[Nagy Balázs]

On 2004. Mar 10., , at 16:50, Bin Ren wrote:

> Go to 5.2.1 or 5.2-current. It has much more and far better SATA 
> support.
> 5.2.1 and 5.2-current supports my VIA and Promise SATA controllers
> like a charm. I saw no problems with installing 5.2.1 with ISO and 
> later
> cvsup upgraded to 5.2-current.

I used 5_2_RELENG latest until my server hung.  I have an ABIT IS7E 
(ICH5) with two Maxtor 160GB SATA drives.  It works for a week, but a 
HDD-intensive process can generate a DMA timeout which halts the whole 
system.  Sadly my production server cannot boot with latest 5_2_RELENG 
kernel if hw.ata.ata_dma is zero.  I have to use a GENERIC kernel from 
my older 5.2.1-RC2 install CD.
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