From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: libata interface fatal error Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:16:00 +0200 Message-ID: <465BEF50.8050207@gmail.com> References: <46580134.7010107@effenberger.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.183]:15797 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757011AbXE2LTs (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 07:19:48 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so831976pyi for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 04:19:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46580134.7010107@effenberger.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Florian Effenberger Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org 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