On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 08:16 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote:
On 14/01/07, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote: > > here's my problem - system was ok and mother board died. Purchased a new > > motherboard and this is what I get... > > > > # hdparm -t /dev/md1 > > > > /dev/md1: > > Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.68 seconds = 1.09 MB/sec > > > > which is dreadfully slow
Any decent system with PATA drives should show values in range 30~50 MB/sec. It would be more useful to get output from "hdparm -tT /dev/(yourdrive)"
Shots in the dark. -- Does this system have SiL drive controller chip? I ran into similar out put problem with a MSI MoBo having that chipset two years back although with SATA drives.
-- Replace drive cables. I have seen degraded output with some old cables but never so much.
---- it was an Intel M/B and putting in a separate ATA controller fixed it (it wasn't the drive cable or the drives) - this ended up moving the drives to hde/hdf respectively and I ended up having to rebuild the faulty mirrored drives - easy enough, I didn't ever have to do that before but it wasn't difficult.
Thanks Les/Sudev/all
Craig