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<DIV>Andrew,</DIV>
<DIV>Can't offer any help on your situation but I too experienced the same
thing. However, since I've been using Seagate Barracuda 80GB NCQ
drives it has made a difference.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon<BR><BR>>>> andrew.furey@gmail.com 6:55:37 pm 5/07/2005
>>><BR>Hi all,<BR><BR>I've just bought a Silicon Image SiI-3112 SATA
controller and a pair<BR>of Western Digital 120G drives. I'm using the libata
sata_sil driver<BR>on a self-compiled (vanilla) 2.4.30 (using them in SATA mode,
and<BR>doing RAID with the md driver).<BR><BR>They seem to be stable enough, but
while transferring my existing<BR>system to them I've noticed that at times
they're abysmally slow<BR>(apparently during writes). Often it will be fine for
several dozen<BR>Mb, then it will essentially stop for 20 seconds or more. The
system<BR>(console VTs) is responsive enough, although anything disk
related<BR>pauses in that time, before suddenly picking up again with no
errors<BR>logged.<BR><BR>Googling around, I've seen references to problems with
a whole bunch<BR>of Seagate drives with this controller, but nothing regarding
WD. I'd<BR>rather not upgrade to 2.6 if I don't have to, but it'll certainly
be<BR>annoying in the long run as it stands...<BR><BR>Any
ideas?<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Andrew<BR><BR>-- <BR>Linux supports the notion of a
command line or a shell for the same<BR>reason that only children read books
with only pictures in them.<BR>Language, be it English or something else, is the
only tool flexible<BR>enough to accomplish a sufficiently broad range of
tasks.<BR>
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