Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

[Roger O. Svenning]

> > On 14/09/2005, at 17:36, Roger O. Svenning wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > >> You should try 6.0-beta4 as that contains the solution to
whatever
> > >> ATA problems you might have on 5.x. Let me know how that goes.
> > >>
> > >> Søren Schmidt
> > >> sos at FreeBSD.org
> > >
> > > cvsup running as I'm writing this
> > >
> > > Would I waste my time trying to enable raid on this controller?
> >
> > Depends, its software RAID, so support relies on ataraid supporting
> > the on-disk metadata format, but you can try to setup a RAID on the
> > disks, it will get picked up if known..
> >
> > Søren Schmidt
> > sos at FreeBSD.org
> 
> Ok, 6.0-beta4 built and installed successfully.
> 
> I'm sorry to report I still get the timeouts.
> 
> On the other hand it does recognize the (old) raid arrays now.
> 

Oh well, replacing the SATA cable fixed it, I'm terribly sorry about
that :(

On the upside the SATA Raid seem to work nicely on 6.0-beta4 so the
upgrade did not turn out to be a waste of time.

Thanks a lot for the help Søren


Regards

Roger O. Svenning
Bodø - Norway