Andrey Andreev wrote: > I upgraded my 2.6.6 kernel to 2.6.8 (the fedora update). I run a SATA > drive on a Sil 3112A controller. I quickly noticed that the SATA drive > was no longer visible under /dev/hde, but under /dev/sda, fixed my > fstab, etc. > > However, as Sil 3112 has had very varied performance with different > kernels, and there obviously was a change in the way it worked, I ran: > > [andrei@brie andrei]$ sudo /sbin/hdparm -t -T /dev/sda > /dev/sda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 1564 MB in 2.00 seconds = 780.95 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 44 MB in 3.12 seconds = 14.11 MB/sec > > Which is pretty awfuly slow, compared to 2.6.6 (over 50 MB/sec). Slow enough for PIO: what does hdparm -d /dev/sda report? James. -- E-mail address: james | "Right lads, we've got 45 minutes to score 37 goals. @westexe.demon.co.uk | No problem with that -- the other team just did."
