> > If not I think my next course of action will be to try swapping the > > controller to a PCIe SiI3132, then maybe give Robin H. Johnson's > > 2.6.20 port of the PMP patches a try. > > Here's paste of the equivalent stuff on my patches. Notice that it takes 49 > seconds to bring the disk array up :-(. > > Feb 28 20:30:52 [kernel] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x42 frozen > Feb 28 20:30:52 [kernel] ata1: (irq_stat 0x00b00090, PHY RDY changed) >From the "PHY RDY changed" I assume that's when you're bringing it up for the first time? Mine also takes a while, but that doesn't bother me -- my problem is frequent random timeouts that cause the same sorts of delays during normal use. > Also, afaik there has been no resolution of the performance issue - while the > controller shows 3Gb, the actual combined speeds I get are only at the 1.5Gb > level. 1.5Gb without the timeouts/hard resets would be fine with me :) -jim - To unsubscribe from this list: 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