I have a disk -- IIRC, Seagate Barracuda 160gb 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0GB/s

dmesg:
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST3160811AS>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152626MB, 312579695 sectors
wd0 (pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6

However, when I run `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0c bs=1M' After 3-4 hours, it's only running at ~2.4MB/s. CPU usage is about 30%.

First, shouldn't SATA drives be sd0? (Looked in BIOS, can't find any SATA-to-IDE options enabled) Second, what can I do to speed it up? or troubleshoot it at least?

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