Re: SATA problems

[Danial Thom <danial_thom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Works on Freebsd 5.4. So SATA doesn't work with
dragonflyBSD? What is the plan on supporting it?
Our platform only has SATA drive bays (hot swap),
so its not a choice.

Danial


--- Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> 


		
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