>> What sort of data transfer rate would people expect?

> I'd say the 150MBit/s should be somewhat guaranteed with that
> hardware, so it would make some 15MByet/sec.

SATA I is 1.5 gigabit per second (150 megabyte per second)
from drive to controller.

SATA II is 3.0 gigabit per second (300 megabyte per second).

> The ATA133 was working good enough. Basic SATA are close to that.

Basic SATA I should be faster than ATA/100 or ATA/133.

Maybe the motherboard has a bottleneck between the internal SATA
controller and the system and/or memory bus.

Or you're being hosed by the OS.
						Lee Jones

-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist