Re: SATA problems

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danial Thom wrote:

> I have a Tyan K8SR opteron MB with a SIL 3114
> SATA controller and I can't get it to work with
> dragonflyBSD. When booting (and using an IDE disk
> as the primary), I get
>
> ad4: timeout waiting for interrupt
>
> The disk works ok on another system with an
> ICH5 controller in legacy mode. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Danial
>
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I can get SiI 3114 (two tried) to work IF drives are attached to ad6 and 
ad7 and report as 'slave' channels,
not on ad4, ad5 'master' channels. (that 'master/slave' nomenclature is 
dodgy w/r SATA anyway).

OTOH, it throws periodic errors - not all of which are innocuous.

Doesn't work any better under FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, despite being listed 
under ata(4) driver.
Promise Fastrak S150-TX2 Plus and High Point RocketRAID 1520 also not 
recognized or
unreliable (Maxtor & WDD HDD).

No more SATA here.  PATA for foolin' around on the cheap,
SCSI for speed/reliability needs, and all critical payin' customers.

Hacker's First Law fits.  "Life is too short...etc."

Bill