Below par performance of SATA drives on FC4-Test2

[Phil Anderson]

> The performance of SATA drive is not upto the mark. I used to get
> better results on FC3. What could be the possible problem and any
> ideas on how to solve it?

My Gigabyte 8IPE Pro with a Segate 7200 80Gb SATA disk is getting:
 Timing cached reads:   3332 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1667.09 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  168 MB in  3.03 seconds =  55.49 MB/sec

This is basically the same as what it was with FC3.  In fact, all my
systems with SATA & Segate 7200 disks all get 55MB/sec consistantly.

Phil

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