slow write speed

hi, I recently got a seagate cheetah (ST336753FC, 15k.3 RPM 37GB) harddrive that sits in my JMR Fortra 2G6 array. I'm running Linux 2.6, using sg3_util.1.13 My seagate is mapped to /dev/sdb I run the following: 1.)time sg_dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bpt=256 count=120 a.) it finishes on ave

Re: slow write speed

Forgot to mention, I've tried the sg_dd program with different bpt values. Like 30,40,60,400,401,257,267. seems like whenever it's even the speeds is faster. --- Ying Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > I recently got a seagate cheetah (ST336753FC, 15k.3 > RPM 37GB) harddrive that sits in m