[gentoo-user] Re: One hard drive much slower for some reason.

[James]

Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> If you know of a way bonnie will help, let me know.  I don't have it
> installed and don't really know much about it except that it does tests.

Maybe ZCAV will help?

http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/zcav/

From the bonnie++ home page:
"The ZCAV program which I initially released as a separate package tests the
performance of different zones of a hard drive. It does not write any data (so
you can use it on full file systems). It can show why comparing the speed of
Windows at the start of a hard drive to Linux at the end of the hard drive
(typical dual-boot scenario) isn't a valid comparison."



hth,
James