On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Tim Connors wrote:

> I'm running a debian 2.6.26-9 kernel (sid) on a new laptop with:
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
>         Subsystem: Dell Device 0275
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Latency: 0
>         Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 378
>         Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=8]
>         Region 1: I/O ports at 18d4 [size=4]
>         Region 2: I/O ports at 18d8 [size=8]
>         Region 3: I/O ports at 18d0 [size=4]
>         Region 4: I/O ports at 18e0 [size=32]
>         Region 5: Memory at f8504000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>         Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/2 Enable+
>                 Address: fee0300c  Data: 41a1
>         Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>         Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA <?>
>         Kernel driver in use: ahci
>         Kernel modules: ahci

hdparm -I and dmesg from a fresh bootup are attached.

I have not set anything using hdparm beyond standard debian install, which
notably does set 'hdparm -B 254'.

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TimC
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