From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GorQf-0002iw-8E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:06:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAS12g4m021343; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:02:42 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAS10bWT003141 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:00:38 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so1313570ugc for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:00:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=PnY8XkhHHeJ2KtotfbH1ZLSd9TFCfsAnA21IunNB8lgaX7tB/RBuahVjsVIzmylhgH1oeh8IA3J434m+AbWtMi6cTOHANjlUGMyBAs/TH8oT8EeqFkiQ4BjjUMIDDws4dvAz/2vRVSjzCvoIuwXSPF+iJ9knF/yWVhQl3aNFM/I= Received: by 10.82.101.3 with SMTP id y3mr57350bub.1164675636932; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:00:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.106.2 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:00:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640611271700l42fe101atc362e28cf9e2dfe8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:00:36 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now... In-Reply-To: <456B65E8.1010604@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4569A5ED.5000301@comcast.net> <7573e9640611261143k3c7eeb47s6f913762bc57c84d@mail.gmail.com> <456A499B.4060108@comcast.net> <7573e9640611270901t1c347c2xd6eaaf6360392bd7@mail.gmail.com> <456B65E8.1010604@comcast.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: c52596477f3b2b7c X-Archives-Salt: 435baf98-db3d-41d7-a5ae-59160232a0e1 X-Archives-Hash: 26f8b9e82d978f7b32f99826fcfd7c5a On 11/27/06, Chris Walters wrote: > showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 280 MB > per second... This seems more like the SATA-II interface speed of ~300MB/s... > Though the same one reported a read speed of about 900+ > MB per second for my USB drive (not really possible, since the maximum > speed for USB 2.0 is about 480 MB / second). Yeah, bogus. And remember that 480 is megabits/sec (Mb/s)...actually more like 60MiB/s maximum throughput (although I have yet to get more than 29MiB/s from any USB drive). > This is very frustrating. At first the drive was quite fast, under > windows and now it is extremely slow... I asked about this in a windows > xp pro group, and so far no one is touching it. Well I would first poke around in the device manager for the SATA interface and make sure it is not in PIO mode. Then check the property pages of the disk and make sure that write caching is enabled. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list