Nathan Goings <[email protected]> writes: > 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%.
See other replies. > 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? See pciide(4). My day-to-day laptop has the same drive controller, previous BIOS versions had a switch to choose SATA but they removed it. *shrug* -- Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas PGP Key fingerprint: 61DB D9A0 00A4 67CF 2A90 8961 6191 8FBF 06A1 1494
