Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Hunger: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, > > we have a HP ProLiant DL320 G3 server and running OpenBSD/amd64 on it. > The problem is with the Intel ICH6R SATA controller. The write speed > is very slow: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=32k count=10000 > 10000+0 records in > 10000+0 records out > 327680000 bytes transferred in 38.898 secs (8423881 bytes/sec) > > The read speed is looks good: > > # dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/null bs=32k count=10000 > 10000+0 records in > 10000+0 records out > 327680000 bytes transferred in 5.531 secs (59237994 bytes/sec) > > Anybody has an idea for this problem?
you are comparing horses to asses... either run dd to rwd0c or into a file in BOTH tests. cu -- paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)