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Subject: Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release
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That sounds about right!

You weren't expecting to get 100Mb/s were you??

-john

On Mon, 9 May 2005, 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
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