Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 19:39 -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote: > >> 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, >> >> _______________________________________________ >> > > Chris, > > Use the command: > > dmidecode > > This will tell you everything you might want to know about your > machine ... > > I do this on all my machines in the /root directory: > > > dmidecode > dmidecode.out > > Then I can review that text file whenever I want. > That was a great suggestion, and very informative (since the box is phsically about 100 miles away and I wasn't the one who ordered or installed it "way back when"). The only mention of the IDE ports/controller is this: Handle 0x000C DMI type 8, 9 bytes. Port Connector Information Internal Reference Designator: PRIMARY IDE Internal Connector Type: On Board IDE External Reference Designator: Not Specified External Connector Type: None Port Type: Other Handle 0x000D DMI type 8, 9 bytes. Port Connector Information Internal Reference Designator: SECONDARY IDE Internal Connector Type: On Board IDE External Reference Designator: Not Specified External Connector Type: None Port Type: Other dmesg yields: PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.2 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: HDS722512VLSA80, ATA DISK drive hdc: HDS722512VLSA80, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/7938KiB Cache, CHS=15017/255/63 hdc: attached ide-disk driver. hdc: host protected area => 1 hdc: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/7938KiB Cache, CHS=15017/255/63 libata version 1.11 loaded. ata_piix version 1.03 ata: 0x1f0 IDE port busy ata: 0x170 IDE port busy Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal Adding Swap: 1052216k swap-space (priority -1) Adding Swap: 1052248k swap-space (priority -2) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,2), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Best regards,