Re: hdparm and hd performance

2000-10-31 Thread mike
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:36:23 -0500 (EST), Anthony Fox said: > Hello, > > I have two IBM 75GXP 15.3G harddrives. The IBM website states that this > particular drive can sustain data transfer rates of 37MB/sec. I am > attempting to use hdparm to check my harddrive performance. I get the >

RE: hdparm and hd performance

2000-10-31 Thread Keith S Marshall
can't say whether your values are right,but this site might help some http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html -Original Message- From: Anthony Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 October 2000 11:36 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hdparm a

hdparm and hd performance

2000-10-31 Thread Anthony Fox
Hello, I have two IBM 75GXP 15.3G harddrives. The IBM website states that this particular drive can sustain data transfer rates of 37MB/sec. I am attempting to use hdparm to check my harddrive performance. I get the following values: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.64 seconds = 2.96