On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> dear debian-user,
>
> i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my
> system. hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. i've played with this for at least 4
> hours now, and am coming to the realization that i definitely need help.
goes to IBM Deskstar page and get the specifications for your disk;
you'll see that the sustained transfer rate (Chapter 4) (the one hdparm
is measuring) is about 40.8MB/s, without any other process/event
competing for the bus.
So your HD is OK! Try running bonnie++ and look its results; they will
be similar to hdparm but with additional info.
[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
