Sudev Barar wrote: > On 11/03/06, Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com> wrote: > >> I've got a brand new .5U P4 system running several (I think) Seagate >> 80gig SATA drives. I tried to copy data from the first drive (sda) to >> the second drive (sdc) and was only getting about 1.7megs/sec. So I >> > > The only time I saw similar issue was on a MoBo with SiL sata > controller chip. It was overcome by plugging in a SATA pci card :-) > I'm reasonably sure it's a garden variety intel ICHX chipset on an Intel motherboard. Dmesg doesn't really offer any clues (at least none that I'm able to decipher). Cheers,