Comment 15 for bug 216878

Can you explain what this means to those of us suffering from the extremely poor IDE performance on Hardy etc?

I read thru the link (KernelTeamBugPolicies) and the impression I get is that this bug has been de-prioritized, and no one is looking into why any more. I understand if there are not enough people to work on bugs, but please let us know the status of any fix for this.
If it's not going to be fixed I will install an older version of ubuntu on my server box to avoid it, as this bug is causing my server to be painfully slow.

Does anyone know how to revert the PATA drives back to the old drivers to avoid this slowdown?