On Friday 08 January 2010 13:49:02 Aleksey Cheusov wrote: > On freshly installed NetBSD-5.0.1/x86_64 300Gb hard disk works too > slowly. > > dd if=/dev/wd0d of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=100 > > command says that data read speed is ~5Mb/s. Try again with /dev/rwd0d instead of /dev/wd0d. Steve