Comment 40 for bug 96693

Hello,

I am a fedora user and I am having the same issue.
At some point, I think fedora 4 or 5, hda became sda
and I have had this issue since and still persist on fedora 8 with latest kernel.

I have gone to scsi drives on my servers

[root@dbox ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads: 318 MB in 2.01 seconds = 158.33 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 38 MB in 3.17 seconds = 11.98 MB/sec

Linux dbox 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 18:51:08 EST 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[root@dbox ~]# hdparm /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
 readonly = 0 (off)
 readahead = 256 (on)
 geometry = 4998/255/63, sectors = 80293248, start = 0
[root@dbox ~]# hdparm -a1 /dev/sda

[root@dbox ~]# hdparm -i /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

 Model=Maxtor 2F040J0 , FwRev=VAM51JJ0, SerialNo=F184DD7E
 Config={ Fixed }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=80293248
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6
 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7

 * signifies the current active mode