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Subject: Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release
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Amandeep wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using Tyan S2098 MB with 160GB Maxtor ATA  Drive and the transfer 
> rate is very low. FreeBSD 5.3-Release.
> Any ideas what is going on here.
> 
> The transfer rate is about 15MB/s
> 
> when I run
> #dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/junk bs=8192
> 
> then do
> #iostat 1

You should probably provide the appropriate information from dmesg 
output, along with what you expect it to be, and the outputs of the dd 
command.

Eric



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