Todd Simi wrote: > Hi, > > I know this may be a silly question since it probably a hardware limitation, > but I'm running F7 and would like to know what I can do to increase the hard > drive seek time, if anything. > > I have a pretty new SATA drive at 3GB/sec and it seems to have to seek longer > than I'd expect. FWIW, the SATA spec is 3Gbits/sec and I believe that hdparm is reporting MBytes/sec. > > It's running with DMA4, AHCI, etc. > > The rest is an ASUS MB with a Core 2 Duo 6400 @ 2.4 Mhz & 2GB Ram @ 800Mhz. > > Are there any setting from the standard that by help? > > here's the hdparm output > > [root@localhost ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 8608 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4313.28 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 202 MB in 3.02 seconds = 66.79 MB/sec
