I've noticed that an external eSATA drive I use for backups gets downgraded to 1.5Gbs, with errors when I boot. + I'm running Fedora 11 (64bit ). + The eSATA port is from a JMicron JMB361, which is also used for two PATA DVD drives - if that makes any difference. + The drive is an Icy Box - Ib-390stus-b enclosure. + In the BIOS, I've select AHCI. + I've tried booting with noapic acpi=off + The drive seems to work fine at 1.5GBps, but I'd rather have the full speed its capable off. Any ideas on the meaning of the errors ... [trantor] ~ $dmesg | grep ata7 ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfeafe000 port 0xfeafe100 irq 10 ata7: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata7.00: ATA-8: WDC WD10EACS-00D6B1, 01.01A01, max UDMA/133 ata7.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) sda:<6>ata7.00: configured for UDMA/133 sde:<3>ata7.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x780100 action 0x6 ata7.00: irq_stat 0x08000000 ata7: SError: { UnrecovData 10B8B Dispar BadCRC Handshk } ata7.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in ata7.00: status: { DRDY } ata7: hard resetting link ata7: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata7.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) ata7.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata7: hard resetting link ata7: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata7.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata7: EH complete ata7: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps ata7.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x780100 action 0x6 ata7.00: irq_stat 0x08000000 ata7: SError: { UnrecovData 10B8B Dispar BadCRC Handshk } ata7.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in ata7.00: status: { DRDY } ata7: hard resetting link ata7: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata7.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata7: EH complete Thanks Andy -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines