Using Seagate FreeAgent Go 500Gb drive, unable to perform sustained data transfer.
Can confirm this issue is still in Karmic: Linux nigel-laptop 2.6.31-9-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Sun Aug 30 17:39:23 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
As mentioned above, this:
echo 1024 > /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors
was required to get the drive working reliably.
Using Seagate FreeAgent Go 500Gb drive, unable to perform sustained data transfer.
Can confirm this issue is still in Karmic:
Linux nigel-laptop 2.6.31-9-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Sun Aug 30 17:39:23 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
As mentioned above, this:
echo 1024 > /sys/block/ sdb/device/ max_sectors
was required to get the drive working reliably.