Greetings, On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, David Suhendrik <david at pnyet.web.id> wrote: > @Rajagopal: > > This result: > # hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 > > /dev/hda5: > Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.08 seconds = 2.60 MB/sec > First of all it should report /dev/sda and not /dev/hda It is a horrible speed for modern disks. Modern SATA disks show around 50-80 MB/Sec I am sure ide0noprobe=no (or zero -- check docs) in the kernel mline will surely speed up in addition to other suggestions will dramatically speed up. Regards, Rajagopal