hdparm strangeness

[chrism at imntv.com (Chris Mauritz)]

Sudev Barar wrote:
> On 11/03/06, Chris Mauritz <chrism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
>> Following-up my own post.....
>>
>> I've also been able to determine that the affected system is using a
>> Supermicro motherboard with an Intel 845GE chipset.
>>     
>
> SO not Intel MoBo. IAC you details did not yield much to me. One more
> hack suggestion since yoou mention it is an old box. Check or replace
> HDD cables. I have seen impact of transfer speed by changing cables
> climb up from ~15 to ~40 on IDE PATA drives.
>   

Actually, the system is only about 5 months old and is running a P4 
3.2mhz processor.  The drives are SATA Hitachi units so it's definitely 
not an old PATA cable issue.

Cheers,