sloooow esata

[sweetbrett]

I have a 1tb drive connected via esata to my asus p5q, running 10.5.8. The drive is in a ICY BOX ic-390stus-b enclosure. The esata port is plugged in to the intel controller on the mobo, same as the internal sata drives. All of the internal SATA drives work fine. Any ideas on what might be going on?

 

Xbench results:

esata -

Results	2.09	
 System Info		
	 Xbench Version		1.3
	 System Version		10.5.8 (9L30)
	 Physical RAM		4096 MB
	 Model		MacPro3,1
	 Drive Type		ST31000340AS
 Disk Test	2.09	
	 Sequential	1.26	
		 Uncached Write	0.34	0.21 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		 Uncached Write	15.35	8.69 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		 Uncached Read	5.52	1.61 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		 Uncached Read	133.12	66.91 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	 Random	6.28	
		 Uncached Write	1.77	0.19 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		 Uncached Write	27.70	8.87 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		 Uncached Read	51.43	0.36 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		 Uncached Read	65.35	12.13 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

internal sata:

 Results	64.87	
 System Info		
	 Xbench Version		1.3
	 System Version		10.5.8 (9L30)
	 Physical RAM		4096 MB
	 Model		MacPro3,1
	 Drive Type		WDC WD2500KS-00MJB1
 Disk Test	64.87	
	 Sequential	92.16	
		 Uncached Write	74.62	45.81 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		 Uncached Write	95.09	53.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		 Uncached Read	92.75	27.14 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		 Uncached Read	114.93	57.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	 Random	50.05	
		 Uncached Write	17.64	1.87 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		 Uncached Write	158.66	50.79 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		 Uncached Read	103.24	0.73 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		 Uncached Read	137.76	25.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]