On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:06:38PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > >I've had a try with libata and Alan Cox's 2.6.17-ide1 patch (I'd > >previously tried this and had issues, which turned out to be a faulty > >drive I think). This seems to get better results (sda is the same drive > >as was hde earlier): > > I wouldn't be so sure about the faulty drive. ;-) No, the drive was definitely faulty - I ran the Western Digital test tool on it and it indicated the drive should be returned for a replacement. > No "HW reset results" -- SATA drives don't have valid word 93 as it > seems, and so the eighty_ninty_three() returns 0 meaning that the device > reports 40c PATA cable. > I think you need to try this 2.6.18-rc1 patch from Alan: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1a1276e7b6cba549553285f74e87f702bfff6fac Result! I've applied that patch and now get UDMA(133) reported and speeds of 45MB/s+, so much better. Thanks! J. -- jid: noodles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Then P=NP, and the world is a happier place." -- Steve Cameron in a complexity tute. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
