From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261293AbULJPHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:07:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261309AbULJPHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:07:18 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:56316 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261293AbULJPHN (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:07:13 -0500 Subject: Sil3112 and Seagate ST3160023AS From: Julien Langer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:07:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1102691231.3921.13.camel@moeff> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:b0db08a687644468549cd788b9c03e48 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I know, Sil SATA controllers and Seagate disks are a bad combination. However my Seagate drive worked flawlessly for about half a year and hdparm -t tells my, it's working with approx. 50 mb/s. I just switched from 2.6.7 to 2.6.10RC3 yesterday and noticed that my drive now only works with 15 mb/s. Also I get a new message "applying pessimistic Seagate errata fix" when booting, which wasn't there with 2.6.7. Is there a way to disable this fix, which slows down my drive, since it worked fine for a long time without this fix on older kernel versions? I'm using the deprecated ide driver for the sil controller, not libata. Thanks in advance, Julien Langer PS: Please CC me, I'm not on the list