Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: >>> Also, few months ago instead of sata_sil24 I had my drives connected to >>> sata_mv (Supermicro 8-port) and performance was normal... >> Everything seems okay. I wonder where the difference is. Does "dd >> if=/dev/zero of=file oflags=direct bs=1M" make any difference? And can >> you vacate a raw partition and try it on there? > > oflag=direct has no effect - same speed. Tried it on a raw /dev/sda device > and still no difference. It maybe slighly better, giving me 18 MB/s. > > Can it be something with the way SiI 3124 controller is configured in the > system? Hmmm... That's strange you did specify the "bs" parameter, right? It should essentially give the same performance as "hdparm -t". I wonder where the difference comes from. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html