On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 16:45 -0500, Steve Siegfried wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > <SNIP> > > > > One thing that sticks out for me in all this is the SATA data rate. > > Both the computer and the drive are supposed to be 3.0Gb/s devices. Yet > > the driver wants to connect at 1.5 Gbps. > > > > The Serial ATA Controller is listed as ahci in hwbrowser. > > > > # /sbin/lsmod | grep sat > > sata_sil24 16069 0 > > libata 131937 3 ata_piix,sata_sil24,ahci > > > > > > How should I proceed to get my external drive working ? > > > > Check the manual that came with your motherboard (or the hardware manual > that came with your computer). 3.0GB/s SATA is otherwise known as "SATA > II", "SATA 3.0" and/or "SATA/300". If it just sez "SATA", it's 1.5Gbs > "SATA-I" and you either need a controller card or a new motherboard to > use the 3.0GB/s drives. Sadly some SATA-II drives don't automagically > downshift to SATA-I mode nicely... you may have one of these. The shiny HP advertising brochure says "eSATA Port. Blazing next generation 3Gb/sec data transfer to an external HDD." So unless the marketing department got it wrong and the engineers never read the brochures, its probably a 3Gb/sec port. I think that Linux somehow gets the speed wrong. Is it time to report this as a bug ? LG -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
