Very slow writing to SATA disk

[Mikhail Teterin]

> Hmm, that does sound as problems with that disk, or maybe disk vs  
> diskcontroller. Any chance you could try the disk on something else ?

I'll try...

> One other thing, how much mem do you have in there ? more than 4G and  
> bounce buffering might get into the picture ruining the transfer rate...

2Gb right now. Does the 4Gb limit apply to amd64 as well?

	-mi