>> We have a PowerEdge 2950 with an "LSISAS1068E" controller, hooked up  
>> to
>> two Seagate 1TB SATA disks.  For some reason the performance of these
>> disks is quite poor - I'm lucky to get over 10MB/sec from them, when I
>> should be getting closer to 100MB/sec.
> 
> 4k blocks?
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=4k%20block%20linux

Interesting reading, I hadn't heard about that before.  Unfortunately 
no, according to the Seagate docs on the disks they are using 512 byte 
physical sectors.

Cheers,
Adam.

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