Hello,

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:29:37PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:

Hmm... libata.force=80c - didn't seem to work.

Is libata.ko a module which is loaded from initrd?  The initrd could
be dumb and fail to pass the kernel param to the module when loading
it.  In those cases, you'll need to modify initrd so that the
parameter is specified.

Thanks.

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tejun