ATA_DMA errors (and fs corruption!)

[Bob Bishop]

At 13:19 20/06/2005, Tony Byrne wrote:
>Hello Bob,
>
>BB> It didn't to me either. Note the use of 'mysterious' :-)
>BB> I'd eliminated drives and cables, and then did it all over again when the
>BB> failure went hard, leaving the controller (or something else on the mobo).
>BB> With a new mobo all the annoying timeouts which I'd put down to driver
>BB> misbehaviour just went away.
>
>Did you replace the motherboard with one of the same brand and model?

No, but as it happened they both have the same SATA controller chip.

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