hdparm strangeness

[chrism at imntv.com (Chris Mauritz)]

Sudev Barar wrote:
> On 11/03/06, Chris Mauritz <chrism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
>> I've got a brand new .5U P4 system running several (I think) Seagate
>> 80gig SATA drives.  I tried to copy data from the first drive (sda) to
>> the second drive (sdc) and was only getting about 1.7megs/sec.  So I
>>     
>
> The only time I saw similar issue was on a MoBo with SiL sata
> controller chip. It was overcome by plugging in a SATA pci card :-)
>   

I'm reasonably sure it's a garden variety intel ICHX chipset on an Intel 
motherboard.  Dmesg doesn't really offer any clues (at least none that 
I'm able to decipher).

Cheers,