Hi, Adding "libata.force=1.5Gbps" to the boot parameters for the installer doesn't work. It leads to a message saying "unknown parameter 5Gbps". (Trying 3.0Gbps leads to "unknown parameter 0Gbps" so it looks like it could be a parsing issue.)
Details: I have a Sony Vaio VGN-NS140E laptop that was working fine with sid until its hard drive died recently, so I got an SSD and prepared a usb stick with the wheezy beta2 installer. The install was okay generally, though there were many serious errors when accessing the drive, making the system unusable. Searching online, I found out that some computers, even ones whose SATA controllers are supposedly capable of 3Gbps, can only manage 1.5Gbps and have problems with the auto-negotiation to drop from 3Gbps to 1.5Gbps. The old hard drive that came out of the laptop had a jumper on it, limiting its speed to 1.5Gbps, but this new SSD doesn't have such a jumper setting, as far as I could find out. To test that dropping to 1.5Gbps would solve the problems, I tried installing Linux Mint. It recognized the boot parameter correctly, leading to no drive errors at all and good performance (within the bounds of 1.5Gbps, or course --- still much faster than my old hard drive). The kernel for Mint was 3.2.0-23 and the one in the Debian installer was 3.2.0-3, I think. (By the way, without that parameter, Mint also had massive problems with the new drive.) Selim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
