From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Unknown SATA PIIX PCI device ID 0x29b6 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:35:29 +0900 Message-ID: <47D66071.7010906@gmail.com> References: <20080228225603.2764bfd1@core> <47CFADDF.20200@gmail.com> <47D0C9E6.8090301@gmail.com> <47D3723B.3040700@gmail.com> <47D485EC.1060103@gmail.com> <47D53231.30107@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:3040 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbYCKKfg (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:35:36 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so2778448wah.23 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:35:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Well, I am not sure, whether it helps, tried booting with both 1.5Gbps and > this patch, it recovers now within 30 sec in both cold- and hot-plug > cases. To really state, that it has improved from about 55 sec down to 30 > sec one would need more testing. Is this the kind of improvement you > expected? Not really. :-P > Can it be, that with this hardware it just cannot get better? > Remember, the disk is an external eSATA enclosure with a (relatively new) > PATA disk inside. Can you try out a shorter cable? I had a lot of troubles with eSATA + long cable + PMP combinations. Using shorter cable usually solves the problem for me. -- tejun