Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

[Søren Schmidt]

Roger O. Svenning wrote:
>>>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

NP! I'm just happy it works for you..

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-Søren