>> sda 84.02 >> sdb 113,69 >> md2 8,01 >> >> md2 and his meber have a very different ratio.... > >Strange isn't it. And the ratios are the other-way-around to what I get. >I don't currently understand why ... but it might not be at all relevant to >the speed difference. Hi, i did some test on a different machine with centos 5.5 and ICH10 disk controller. On this machine i have no performance issue: hdparm -t return the same value (about 107 MB/s) on both /dev/md0 and its members I measured the "ratio" and i obtained 8.02 for md0 and 505 for meber disk. I it seems that the "raito" is not so relevant for this issue. What do you think ? In this case the md device was not mounted. I also tried several different io scheduler whithout noting any effect on sequential read eprformance. Marco -- 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