Fedora 7 Sata Disk

[Srikanth Konjarla]

All,

I am running Fedora 7 on laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo machine with a 
Sata Disk.

# lsmod | grep ata
ata_piix               25541  4
ata_generic            17861  0
libata                131689  2 ata_piix,ata_generic
scsi_mod              165241  4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod

The hdparm reports a slow disk.

]# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
  Timing cached reads:   5222 MB in  2.00 seconds = 2617.12 MB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads:  102 MB in  3.02 seconds =  33.82 MB/sec

Wondering if there is a way to improve the SATA disk performance.

Thanks in advance

Srikanth