On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:43:47PM -0500, Paul Aviles wrote: > Are SATA drives similar in performance than IDE drives? I have tested > Barracudas 7200.0 (500Gb) and WD too on the same type of servers (more than > 1 unit) and what I am getting is painfully slow in terms of read/writes. > Anyone out there with similar experience or this is just my isolated > results? Probably depends on your controller and configuration. If it's an integrated controller, boot into your BIOS and make sure that any kind of "Native/Legacy Mode" option is set to "Native mode". I don't know what the difference is, but I've seen Legacy mode boxes crawl... -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html