From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Effenberger Subject: Re: libata interface fatal error Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:44:24 +0200 Message-ID: <46766208.1080305@effenberger.org> References: <46580134.7010107@effenberger.org> <465BEF50.8050207@gmail.com> <466725E5.9030405@effenberger.org> <4667D4F5.1060302@gmail.com> <4673BA28.2020106@effenberger.org> <4675F84D.3060207@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from garfield.effenberger.org ([85.214.43.221]:41055 "EHLO garfield.effenberger.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759064AbXFRKob (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:44:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4675F84D.3060207@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org Hi, > The controller being ich8, I'm pretty sure it isn't a driver problem. I think so, too. The Intel chipsets have shown to be very good in the past. > Do the errors occur on all four drives? Also, if things work after > speed is downgraded to 1.5Gbps, it doesn't really matter. There's no > noticeable performance difference for single disk anyway. Yes, they do occur on all drives, as far as I know. With 1.5Gbps, the error doesn't occur much as often and not under normal circumstances, only when doing a real hard stress test. Would it make sense to downgrade to 1.5 Gbps via a boot option? Florian