pundit-R sata speed

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "MJ" == Marcel Janssen <korgull at home.nl> writes:

MJ> I've got a Pundit-R with SATA drive and it seems that I'm only
MJ> getting a maximum of 14MB/s from that drive, measured using
MJ> hdparm.

I've seen this as well.  And since you didn't provide any information:

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 8108
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
        ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort+ <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 177
        Region 0: I/O ports at <ignored>
        Region 1: I/O ports at <ignored>
        Region 2: I/O ports at <ignored>
        Region 3: I/O ports at <ignored>
        Region 4: I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]

I don't have a machine with SATA connected to give dmesg, but here's
the messages from a PATA machine:

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ATIIXP: chipset revision 0
ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SAMSUNG SP0411N, ATA DISK drive
hdb: TSSTcorpDVD-ROM TS-H352A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 78242976 sectors (40060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63,
UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)

 - J<