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Subject: Re: [RESEND][2.6.15] New ATA error messages on upgrade to 2.6.15
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Gwe, 2006-03-31 at 21:54 -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> IDE controller at a higher-than-supported speed.  It gets errors for  
> a couple seconds and automatically drops the bus down to a lower and  
> safer speed. 

This indicates a problem somewhere. The drives and controller report
their speed capabilities and if they can't meet the ones they are
reporting something is very wrong somewhere and this is most definitely
the first thing to debug.