From: Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@gmail.com>
To: Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata.force=1.5Gbps doesn't seem to work
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:41:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <484BFDA9.7050308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080608113527.GA5105@craig-wood.com>
Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Ever since I changed to AHCI (by fiddling with random options in the
> BIOS) my external SATA drive is being run at 3.0 Gbps. However it
> doesn't seem reliable at that - maybe the cable is too long. (It is
> probably about 80cm in total - one standard SATA cable going to the
> case and another from the case to the drive).
>
> I read in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt that a command line of
>
> libata.force=1.5Gbps
>
> Should force all my SATA disks to 1.5 Gbps.
>
> However this doesn't seem to work.
I cannot help with the option not working, but you might see if the drives can
be jumpered to force 1.5Gbps, I know a number of the manufacturers have jumpers
to force 1.5Gbps since a number of older chipsets (Via sata and probably others)
don't properly auto-neg 1.5Gbps on a 3.0Gbps drive, and fail to work at all.
Roger
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2008-06-08 11:35 libata.force=1.5Gbps doesn't seem to work Nick Craig-Wood
2008-06-08 15:41 ` Roger Heflin [this message]
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