Re: New laptop - problems with linux

[Tejun Heo]

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.

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tejun
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