From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 10:53:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (twinlark.arctic.org [208.44.199.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF9037B476 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27218 invoked by uid 1347); 25 Apr 2002 17:52:36 -0000 Date: 25 Apr 2002 17:52:36 -0000 Message-ID: <20020425175236.27217.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> From: atk2@arctic.org To: atk2@arctic.org, nickw@uidaho.edu, UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR Subject: Re: checking hard disk -- hdparm like tool? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <17335436738437@CYPHER.turbonet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But will it also display/set what mode the drive is using (ultra dma 1,2,3,4,5,6,...) (aka I tried iostat last night - and it seemed that a maxtor 7200 rpm drive was giving me 6MB -- it seems that other folks get 20MB to 30MB with this drive... (I did cat /dev/ataxxx > /dev/null) Alan ||From nickw@gizmo.platy3.org Thu Apr 25 10:33:55 2002 ||How about bonnie, /usr/ports/benchmarks/bonnie ||Be aware, though, it won't give you as optimistic results as hdparm, ||bonnie is more realistic. ||_Nick ||On 25 Apr, atk2@arctic.org wrote: ||-| ||-| Is there a tool similar to linux hdparm which will report the dma mode and ||-| read/write performance of an ide hard disk. Trying to ensure that my disk ||-| is installed correctly... ||-| ||-| Alan ||-| ||-| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ||-| with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message