[NTLUG:Discuss] Setting up a SATA drive for performance

[David Simmons]

Since you said this is a 'driver card' - what bus type is it?  It looks
like PCI - so there may be alot of bus congestion/collusion going on.

I'd like to say, "Looks like ISA", but that would be cruel...grin....but
would totally explain what's going on?

-dave

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:43 AM, agoats at compuserve.com <
agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:

> Ya'll,
>
> I picked up a SATA drive and driver card and in the process of setting up
> and using it, I have some *PROFOUND* performance issues.
>
> from hdparm:
> hdparm -tT  /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> Timing cached reads:     2 MB in  2.24 seconds = 914.79 kB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads:    2 MB in  5.31 seconds = 385.49 kB/sec
>
> That's kinda sloooowwwww......
>
> So what I'm looking for is the correct chant to make that will boost
> performance quite a bit. hdparm doesn't et anything and I haven't found
> what sdparm chant I need to make to make things better.
>
> OS is Slackware 12.2.2,  kernel 2.6.27, so everything should work fine.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Alvin
>
>
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