SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4

[Alan Jay]

I thought that as well.  My machine is using a Tyan motherbaord with the Intel
6300SEB and I thought that was a reasnably conservative choice of motherboard.

I don't know if this is a hint not to use SATA/IDE controllers any more but
there are lots of occasions when it is more than enough power to be going on
with.

What is annoying is that there doesn't seem to be enough in the way of problem
reports to say this is not supported so we know we are on to a loosing streak
and need to find an alternate type of hardware.

Does anyone know if the "Adaptec AIC-8110 SATA I" controller, which Tyan
offer, as an add on module is supported.  The release notes which I have
checked do not mention this number.  But hten this is probably a part number
and not the chip number.

Thanks.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mkb at mkbuelow.net [mailto:mkb at mkbuelow.net] On Behalf Of Matthias
> Buelow
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 12:49 PM
> To: Tony Byrne
> Cc: Alan Jay; freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350
> with FreeBSD 5.4
> 
> Tony Byrne <freebsd-current at 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.