Comment 9 for bug 155511

Very slow performance from new 160GB IDE HDD in Ubuntu Hardy:

$ sudo hdparm /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1:
 IO_support = 0 (default)
16-bit)
 HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 HDIO_GET_KEEPSETTINGS failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 readonly = 0 (off)
 readahead = 256 (on)
 geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 113274252, start = 63

$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1:
 Timing cached reads: 176 MB in 2.02 seconds = 87.24 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.09 seconds = 19.39 MB/sec