SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 (Adaptec AIC-8110 Compatibility maybe?)

[Alan Jay]

Totally agree - I have 2 idential machines that have the same problem
And have tried alternate hard disks all of which exhibit the same 
Problem.  

I would agree with you that the ICH5 must be common and the Tyan S3530 
(http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigeri7320r_spec.html ) with the Intel
6300SEB which I would have thought (as you say) was very common.

I did notice that Tyan offer the Adaptec AIC-8110 SATA I controller as an add
on module and I wondered if that might be supported but it doesn't seem by
that number to be on the release list (any thoughts).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Byrne [mailto:freebsd-current at byrnehq.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:29 AM
> To: Alan Jay
> Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350
> with FreeBSD 5.4
> 
> 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
> and yet the problem either doesn't seem to be widespread and isn't
> recognized by the community in general. I find that strange since the
> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony.
> 
> --
> Tony Byrne
>