[O/T] raptor 10000rpm ide disks

[Alan Cox]

> No!  They are connected to Asus A7N8X MB, which has SiI3112 Serial ATA 
> (according to dmesg).
> hdparm -t shows TERRIBLE slow results.  
> /sbin/hdparm /dev/hde

You need ASUS BIOS 1005 or higher for some boards with Nvidia chipsets. 
You may also need current 2.4.x kernel driver bits

> Nov  4 11:31:01 rpppc1 kernel: hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady 
> SeekComplete Error }
> Nov  4 11:31:01 rpppc1 kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, 
> LBAsect=1099511642367, high=65536, low=14591, sector=0
> Nov  4 11:31:21 rpppc1 kernel: hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21

LBAsect is bonkers so you may have data corruption, bad memory or possibly
too old a BIOS rev.