kernel 2.6.24.5 and Sata

[Alex Snow]

Hi,
Just updated one of my machines to slackware 12.1 (linux 2.6.24.5).  
While going through the install I noticed disk performance was pretty 
bad...I had a similar problem running linux 2.4 on this machine and 
thought it had something to do with IDE emulation on the Sata controler.  
When I upgraded to 2.6 at the time (2.6.17.13 I believe) using libata 
performance drasticly improved.  Now that I installed slack 12.1 with 
2.6.24.5 performance is down again.  I also noticed that the sata disk 
is seen as hda instead of sda  and looking at boot messages it's seen as 
an IDE disk on an IDE bus, so I think the slowness is due to this 
emulation issue I had in 2.4.  Looking at the kernel configuration, it 
seems that libata is no longer built by slackware and is deprecated in 
the kernel.  The sata controler is an  Intel generic onboard controler 
(I forget the exact model atm, but I know it was supported by libata.
Does anyone have any idea what I should do to try and improve 
performance? Is there any reason I shouldn't recompile the kernel with 
libata (other then it being deprecated)?
Thanks for any help.

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