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On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 08:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Only problem is these are SATA drives and they don't tell me much |
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> compared to EIDE drives when using hdparm. Also their error messages |
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> running hdparm are a bit of a concern, although typical from what I've |
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> read. |
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> |
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> lightning ~ # hdparm /dev/sda |
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> /dev/sda: |
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> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) |
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> readonly = 0 (off) |
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> readahead = 256 (on) |
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> geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 250059350016, start = 0 |
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> lightning ~ # |
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> lightning ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sda |
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> /dev/sda: |
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> Timing cached reads: 2040 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1018.12 MB/sec |
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> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate |
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> ioctl for device |
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> Timing buffered disk reads: 198 MB in 3.02 seconds = 65.62 MB/sec |
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> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate |
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> ioctl for device |
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> lightning ~ # |
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You might try sdparm. It doesn't give very much output on my SATA |
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drive, but it's supposed to give more on others. |
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Daniel |
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