SATA drive lock-up

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems Putinas wrote:
> Hi all,
> Inspired with all the FreeBSD is free software , windows and buggy hardware
> and blabla I realize what maybe I could do more to help solve this problem.
> I made small research on my computer and I find out what till the cvsup date
> 2003.08.24.00.00.00 till ATAng commitment to the source my SATA Sil3112A
> working fine.
> After this date I always get WRITE_DMA recovered from missing interrupt
> error
> after more or less intensive input output with harddisk subsystem , and
> after I/O error and so on ...
> My bet is what in this case buggy is not hardware .. at least this bug
> didn't
> show up until 25 August

Well, it works here with pure SATA drives at least, do you use real
SATA disks on PATA ones with SATA dongles ?

So long that I cant reproduce the problem its hard to fix...

-Søren