From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guennadi Liakhovetski Subject: Re: Unknown SATA PIIX PCI device ID 0x29b6 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:13:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <20080228225603.2764bfd1@core> <47CFADDF.20200@gmail.com> <47D0C9E6.8090301@gmail.com> <47D3723B.3040700@gmail.com> <47D485EC.1060103@gmail.com> <47D53231.30107@gmail.com> <47D66071.7010906@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:56839 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752658AbYCKLM6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:12:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47D66071.7010906@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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. Well, this cable is only about 50cm long, or even shorter, and using a shorter one would be difficult there, even if I manage to get hold of one. But, in principle, if this is not a generic ahci problem that needs to be solved, I personally can somehow live with it. Having to wait 1 minute is not very nice, but so far not critical. Thanks for your help Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski