Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that the speed is never lowered, I always see "SATA link up 3.0 > Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)". > > Can I manually lower the speed via a kernel parameter? Currently, there is no mechanism to do that but hard drives usually have dip switch to force 1.5Gbps. Please try that. If your harddrive doesn't have that, please lemme know. I'll prepare a simple patch. Thanks. -- tejun - 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