> but after suspending and resuming the notebook I only get
>
> # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 32 MB in 1.20 seconds =26.67 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 4.93 seconds = 3.25
> MB/sec
If harddisk is spinned down in between, I could quite understand that
behaviour. Your harddrive probably resets itself on spinup. So this
may be hw problem. Don't know how to handle that, perhaps using
kerneld to tell userspace that we are being spinned up?
Pavel
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