Speed of the processor very slow with newly mounted second sata drive

[Urmi]

Hi all,

I am using Debian amd64 with 2 quad-core processors and 2 sata hard drives. I mounted a sata drive while installing debian. The speed of the machine was very good with it. Before some days I mounted second drive on the machine and it simply takes too long for running commands like mv..!

Does anyone have an idea what could be the reason for that.

Thanks in advance.

Urmi

[veepo]

have you run some staticstic tool to see how slow it gets? like bonnie++?

you could also post the the line of the /etc/fstab so that we could see how have you mounted the partitions and run

hdparm <your_second_hdd>

and post the results here.

[iwanabeguru]

maybe it will help

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/dio.html

[lugoteehalt]

Don't know. How about using them as RAID, have them work together and it's supposed to halve the time isn't it?