Re: SATA Debian support

[Hamid <debian_lists@hotmail.com>]

> Hamid wrote:
> > > > I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5  
> > > > and   SiI3112 chipset)
> > > > Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to   
> > > > install  Debian testing
> > > > because Woody intaller did not have the support.
> > > >  I should say that the performance of my SATA under Linux is  
> > > > inferior  to  that of normal
> > > > ATA and the data rate I get from my SATA is very lousy comparing to  
> > > > ATA.
> > > > I read somewhere that this is going to get fixed in future versions  
> > > > of  the  SATA driver !
> > >
> > >
> > >    I thought these are about to be expected (DMA on hd* disks, the  
> > > sda  disk is SATA, the hd* are IDE)), do you get different speed on  
> > > SATA  drives? I have intel D865PERL (ICH5).
> >   My SATA is configured as /dev/hde, and I do get different speeds on   
> > different drives since
> > they have manufactured in different years (technologies).
> >
> > > jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -t /dev/sda1
> > >
> > > /dev/sda1:
> > >   Timing buffered disk reads:  156 MB in  3.00 seconds =  52.00 MB/sec
> >   Whenever I insert my USB flash drive it is configured as /dev/sda1
> > I think /dev/sda* are for SCSI disk drives ! unless your SATA drive is
> > simulated as a SCSI disk
>
>    yes it is
>
>    btw scsi is used for pretty much any mass storage that is not IDE  
> (usb, firewire, can be used for SATA, even used for IDE CD burners)
>
>    anyway, my point was that SATA performs as expected on my system...
>
> 	erik

Can you tell me what you get for your data rate (MB/sec ?)

Thanks
Hamid


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