sata-harddisk very slow on fujitsu siemens amilo pro v2030

[merida-2]

Hello!

Installed Dapper Drake on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro V2030 notebook and noticed that harddisk performance is very poor:

sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

returns:

Timing cached reads:  1424 MB in 2.00 seconds = 711.96 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 40 MB in 3.09 seconds = 12.94 MB/sec

The first number seems all right to me but buffered disk reads should be much faster.

The sata_via driver is loaded.

Linux 2.6.15.26-686

Any help is very welcome! Thanks in advance...

... Merida

[merida-2]

Re: sata-harddisk very slow on fujitsu siemens amilo pro v2030

hmm... - nobody got any idea or experienced a similar problem. Maybe dapper is just missing a module for the via chipset.

Any suggestion is more than welcome!

Merida