From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: New laptop - problems with linux Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:38:46 +0900 Message-ID: <4552B0D6.5040100@gmail.com> References: <4551EC86.5010600@seclark.us> <4551F3A6.8040807@gmail.com> <4551F5B7.1050709@seclark.us> <20061108182658.GA21154@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <45523289.2010002@seclark.us> <20061108122649.2f79ec1f@freekitty> <45523F3F.8010806@seclark.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Francois Romieu , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel , Dave Jones , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:26206 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423860AbWKIEi4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 23:38:56 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so115577ugc for ; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:38:55 -0800 (PST) To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us In-Reply-To: <45523F3F.8010806@seclark.us> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephen Clark wrote: > Thanks I have that working - I am now struggling with the disk being > slower than molasses ( high priority, 1.xx mb/sec ) Add 'combined_mode=libata' to kernel parameter and see what happens. This should make libata take care of all ATA ports and your harddisks will appear as /dev/sda and sdb, your cdrom /dev/sr0. So, you might need to adjust root= parameter too. -- tejun