Re: [ILUG] linux.com and tuneups...

From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain beacon.ie)
Date: Wed 19 May 1999 - 10:50:06 IST

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>PII-300, UDMA 8.4 Gb hard drive:
>(long attachment)
>[root at domain doozer /root]# hdparm -t /dev/hda
>/dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 61.03 seconds = 0.52 MB/sec
>[root at domain doozer /root]# hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda

That's appallingly slow... I don't have the exact figures, but my IBM 8.5
drive benched about 7 under Linux 2.2 (VIA UDMA drivers)

Even tweaked heavily it didn't shift much off that (although I got it past
8MB/s by running it as part of a software RAID :-)

Vin

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