Re: IBM Thinkpad T43: second hdd in cdrom bay extremely slow with Knoppix 5.0 ( and 4.02)

[Jody <jody.noury@linucie.net>]

Hi,

Gilles van Ruymbeke wrote:
> Hello,
> I am booting successfully Knoppix 5.0 CEBIT edition on a Thinkpad T43
> from the ISO located on the primary hdd (sata) using my minirt_usb5.gz
> cf: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=101293#101293
> But the access to the 2nd hdd located in the cdrom bay is extremely
> slow.
> hdparm -t /dev/hdc ==> 3MB/Sec with 32 bits access enabled.
> DMA cannot be enabled: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc ==> error
> If second hdd is on the system at boot time, Knoppix 5.0 boot
> is also very slow and a lot of errors are reported during boot.

Same for me on Toshiba Satellite M40-331 with Intel ICH6 SATA controller,
I've tried to pass libata.atapi_enabled=1 to kernel boot without changes.

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Jody