Marcus D. Leech <mleech <at> ripnet.com> writes: > > I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD > performance, and I > can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*. > > Mobo: GigaByte GA880GMA-UD2H > Memory: 8Gbyte 1333 > Disk: 1TB Western Digital > CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T > ... Hi, give us output of (for example /dev/sda): # hdparm -i /dev/sda # hdparm -I /dev/sda Also, is it possible that you played with hdparm and customized it somewhere on your system, perhaps here /etc/rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.local or in general somewhere there ? # grep -ir hdparm /etc # grep -ir hdparm /usr/local # grep -ir hdparm /root JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines