Hello, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: >> 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. > > Well, this cable is only about 50cm long, or even shorter, and using a > shorter one would be difficult there, even if I manage to get hold of one. > But, in principle, if this is not a generic ahci problem that needs to be > solved, I personally can somehow live with it. Having to wait 1 minute is > not very nice, but so far not critical. 50cm gotta be short enough. For intel ahci, it definitely isn't a general problem but it would still be nice if we can find out what's going on but I don't have much idea what to do next. I'll keep your problem in mind and see whether any pattern emerges. If you find out something new, please let us know. 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
