My Seagate hard drive died in december last year (mechanical problem I think, the computer didn't boot with the drive connected, and it made mechanical grinding sounds). The problem was not fixed then either (I was using Kubuntu Edgy).
I had it replaced with with a Maxtor DiamondMax10 (also 200Gb), which works normally with Sil3112 (I get 30-40 MB/s transfer speeds). -- Slow disk performance with Seagate SATA disk and Sil3112 controller https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48979 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs