Bad SATA (Sil 3112A) performance with kernel 2.6.8

[Andrey Andreev]

Randy Kelsoe wrote:

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> so, it looks like the big difference is the drive itself. Yours is a 
> Seagate, and mine is a Western Digital.

looks like it is...

> 
> Also, from the man pages of hdparm, for the -t and the -T options:
> 
>              For meaningful  results,  this  operation  should  be
>              repeated  2-3  times  on  an otherwise inactive system (no 
> other
>              active processes) with at least a couple of  megabytes  of  
> free
>              memory.

I know, I know... It stays pretty much there...
I'll probably see what that
	ata1(0): applying Seagate errata fix
line does, and try to disable it. Or try to run in UDMA/133

Thanks!

//Andro