Hello, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Well, I am not sure, whether it helps, tried booting with both 1.5Gbps and > this patch, it recovers now within 30 sec in both cold- and hot-plug > cases. To really state, that it has improved from about 55 sec down to 30 > sec one would need more testing. Is this the kind of improvement you > expected? Not really. :-P > Can it be, that with this hardware it just cannot get better? > Remember, the disk is an external eSATA enclosure with a (relatively new) > PATA disk inside. Can you try out a shorter cable? I had a lot of troubles with eSATA + long cable + PMP combinations. Using shorter cable usually solves the problem for me. -- 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