Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

> Julien Langer wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Unfortunately it's just a matter of time until you hit a problem,

How long a time would that be a matter of?  I've been using two
ST3160827AS drives (firmware 3.00 and 3.03) connected to an SiI3114
controller using the libata driver (kernel 2.6.9) for a few weeks, at
full speed, without noticing anything out of the ordinary.  I can't
say I have any heavy load, but I have done some moving around of huge
files, and the usual compilation jobs.

The drives are both new.  Is there a chance Seagate have fixed the
problems?

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com

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