I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset)
Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing
because Woody intaller did not have the support.
I should say that the performance of my SATA under Linux is inferior to that of normal
ATA and the data rate I get from my SATA is very lousy comparing to ATA.
I read somewhere that this is going to get fixed in future versions of the SATA driver !
I thought these are about to be expected (DMA on hd* disks, the sda disk is SATA, the hd* are IDE)), do you get different speed on SATA drives? I have intel D865PERL (ICH5).
My SATA is configured as /dev/hde, and I do get different speeds on different drives since
they have manufactured in different years (technologies).
jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -t /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: Timing buffered disk reads: 156 MB in 3.00 seconds = 52.00 MB/sec
Whenever I insert my USB flash drive it is configured as /dev/sda1 I think /dev/sda* are for SCSI disk drives ! unless your SATA drive is simulated as a SCSI disk
jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 26 MB in 3.08 seconds = 8.44 MB/sec jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -t /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb: Timing buffered disk reads: 74 MB in 3.00 seconds = 24.67 MB/sec
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