SATA II Drive Speeds can't exceed 100 megabits.

[Moku]

Hi All;

I've exhausted my knowledge and need a bit of help. I'm currently running a Dell PowerEdge 1950 on a gigabit line, with a SATA II hard drive that just can't keep up to speed. I've searched high and low and believe the drives aren't initializing as fast as they should be.

My current stats/logs are...

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait   %idle
           3.65    0.00    2.03   19.46   74.86

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
sda              25.96       223.60       598.50    2453612    6567652
sdb               0.05         0.63         0.00       6947          0
sdc              88.79     10834.33         0.00  118890056         16

And when I boot, these are from the logs...

Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1068, FwRev=00062800h, Ports=1, MaxQ=511, IRQ=66
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD360ADFD-00  Rev: 7P20
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: SCSI device sda: 72303840 512-byte hdwr sectors (37020 MB)
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: SCSI device sda: 72303840 512-byte hdwr sectors (37020 MB)
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: GSI 18 sharing vector 0x4A and IRQ 18
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 74
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xCC98 ctl 0xCC92 bmdma 0xCC60 irq 74
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xCC80 ctl 0xCC7A bmdma 0xCC68 irq 74
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: scsi1 : ata_piix
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xCC9F
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: scsi2 : ata_piix
Jan 25 17:55:08 datpiff kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xCC87

Any advice on how to get this drive to at least pump out 150 megabits (Isn't it capable of like 800?) would be MUCH appriciated!!! Just looking for someone to point me in the right direction, not hold my hand.

Thanks!

Rich