On 09/06/11 15:31, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Manuel Reimer > <Manuel.Spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I've converted a 1,5TB SATA drive to IDE to run it on a UDMA100 IDE >> controller. >> > You're having a genuine transmission problem and I think > fixing the underlying hardware issue would be the better choice than > mucking with EH behaviors. > FWIW, I've played with three different makes and models of SATA<->PATA bridges at one time or another, and only one of them actually worked reliably with hard drives - all seemed to be OK with optical drives, but I assume that was down to their lower transmission speeds / throughput. If you have any PCI or PCIe slots available, then you may be better off buying a cheap add-in SATA controller instead (e.g. Silicon Image 3132, or second-hand 3124, or Marvell 88SExxxx). Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 -- 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
