From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: seagate disks on sil3114 - slow? Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:07:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4716EA25.7060205@garzik.org> References: <1192683290.5720.38.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:42742 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751663AbXJRFHw (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:07:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1192683290.5720.38.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Soeren Sonnenburg Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > Dear all, > > I just now realize that all disk i.o. on my machine is quite slow > compared with the pata disks I had before. Furthermore I recognized that > I only have seagates (ST3400832AS,ST3400620AS,ST3750640AS,ST3750640AS) > connected to a sil3114 controller. > > Being on kernel 2.6.23.1 and stumbling across > http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Sil_m15w I am now wondering if this > patch made it already in kernel (or when it will make it if it is not > yet in/why never). Are you sure you have a 3114? the mod15write isn't applied to that chip. Does your dmesg say "applying Seagate errata fix (mod15write workaround)" ? Jeff