Dear Henrik,
I have just read the criteria for stable release updates (SRU) - one of them is 
"Bugs which represent severe regressions from the previous release of Ubuntu".
To use UDMA66 when UDMA100 is available might not be a serious regression. A 
300% boot (and _resume_) time increase would be judged a serious regression by 
any user, tough.

Furthermore the logic behind the SRU-guidelines is to not risk any
system instability. "Therefore, when updates are proposed, they must be
accompanied by a strong rationale and present a low risk of
regressions." The fact that the proposed patch (which does only weigh 6
chars) went into other major distributions as well as into mainline
kernel shows quite clearly, that it fullfills both points: A neglectable
risk of regressions _and_ a strong enough rational to convince a number
of knowledgeable kernel and distribution maintainers.

So please do ignore all that talk about reenabling the old pata-code.
That's clearly outside of the scope of a SRU. Fixing libata's pata_sis
is (in my opinion) not.

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pata_sis fails to enable udma100, which causes a long (~1min) delay at boot. 
Patch available!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155702
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