SATA performance drop from FC4 to rawhide..?

[Michel Salim]

Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> I recently installed an FC4, complete with all updates. Everything 
> works fine. My SATA disk is known as /dev/sda and hdparm t /dev/sda 
> gives me around 56MB/sec. Then I decided to make this machine a 
> rawhide test thingy so i disable all my repos and enable development 
> and updates the whole thing...
>
> Now my disk is called /dev/hda and hdparm -t /dev/hda gives ~3MB/sec.
>
> My system is ICH5 based and loads the libata, ata_piix drivers.
>
> Any feedback is welcome!
What does hdparm /dev/hda gives? Does "hdparm -c3 -d1" help?

- Michel