Agonizingly slow SATA HDD performance

[JB]

Marcus D. Leech <mleech <at> ripnet.com> writes:

> 
> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD 
> performance, and I
>    can't figure out why.  No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.
> 
> Mobo: GigaByte GA880GMA-UD2H
> Memory: 8Gbyte 1333
> Disk: 1TB Western Digital
> CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
> ...

Hi,

give us output of (for example /dev/sda):
# hdparm -i /dev/sda
# hdparm -I /dev/sda

Also, is it possible that you played with hdparm and customized it somewhere on
your system, perhaps here
  /etc/rc.local
  /etc/rc.d/rc.local
or in general somewhere there ?
# grep -ir hdparm /etc
# grep -ir hdparm /usr/local
# grep -ir hdparm /root

JB