Comment 26 for bug 119730

I think my drives also act very slow. I do not know what preformance I could expect, here is some infor:

SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA

sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads: 1746 MB in 2.00 seconds = 873.15 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 232 MB in 3.03 seconds = 76.61 MB/sec
nwaren@amanda:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 Timing cached reads: 1248 MB in 2.00 seconds = 624.23 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 162 MB in 3.03 seconds = 53.55 MB/sec

uname -r
2.6.22-14-generic

Processor: AMD X2 +4400
Moderboard: MSI K9AG NEO-F, AMD 690V+SB600, ATX, Socket-AM2, DDR2, GbLAN, VGA