Comment 46 for bug 217849

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QuentinHartman (qhartman) wrote : Re: [Bug 217849] Re: Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty 64 "hiccup" on Sager notebook.

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Justin Lloyd <email address hidden> wrote:

> I too have this issue on a Sager NP2092/Compal JFL92. I have found that
> switching the hard drive controller to IDE mode seems to help. However
> this is a less than ideal solution.
>

Yay! I'm not alone! Does switching to IDE mode seem to have any sort of
performance impact? Presumably it would preclude taking advantage of things
like native command queuing and whatnot, so there is likely a bit of a hit.
Also, when you say it "helps", does it eliminate the problem, or just make
it less frequent? I'll do some tests and benchmarks on my machine as soon as
I'm able

> I would like to help resolve this issue if anyone has any suggestions of
> what I could do to track down the cause.
>

Thanks for any assistance you can offer!

-QH-