SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350

[Alan Jay]

Tony,

Interesting that you have seen different disks producing different timeout
issues (or not) so far on my experiments with 4 different disks 2 SATA 2 IDE
(different dises) is that the timeout error has appears on all of them.

Regads
ALan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Byrne [mailto:freebsd-current at byrnehq.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 5:12 PM
> To: Dominic Marks
> Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org; alan at cyclopsvision.co.uk
> Subject: Re[2]: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan
> S5350
> 
> Hello Dominic,
> 
> DM> Do you see them with ATA mkIII as well?
> 
> I tried the ATA mkIII patches a few weeks ago on one of servers, which
> was suffering DMA TIMEOUTs, but they made no difference.
> 
> This problem may only occur with certain combinations of controller
> and SATA hard drive. For example, I have a workstation with an ICH5
> controller which had been frequently emitting TIMEOUT messages when it
> had a 80Gb 7200k Seagate Barracuda SATA drive installed. As a test
> this afternoon, I swapped out the Seagate for a new 250Gb Western
> Digital SATA drive, and installed 5.4 RELEASE. The machine is now in
> the process of building world, and I've yet to see any TIMEOUTs.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony.
> 
> --
> Tony Byrne
>