On 07/12/13 23:50, Nathan Goings wrote:
I have a disk -- IIRC, Seagate Barracuda 160gb 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA
3.0GB/s
dmesg:
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST3160811AS>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152626MB, 312579695 sectors
wd0 (pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6
However, when I run `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0c bs=1M' After 3-4
use the raw device, /dev/rwd0c, not the block device. I have found close
to no speed improvements with bs > 64k.
/Alexander
hours, it's only running at ~2.4MB/s. CPU usage is about 30%.
First, shouldn't SATA drives be sd0? (Looked in BIOS, can't find any
SATA-to-IDE options enabled) Second, what can I do to speed it up? or
troubleshoot it at least?
