Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:03:00 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: atk2@arctic.org Cc: nickw@uidaho.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: checking hard disk -- hdparm like tool? Message-ID: <20020425110300.A48440@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020425175236.27217.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>; from atk2@arctic.org on Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:52:36PM %2B0000 References: <17335436738437@CYPHER.turbonet.com> <20020425175236.27217.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>
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--RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:52:36PM +0000, atk2@arctic.org wrote: > But will it also display/set what mode the drive is using (ultra dma > 1,2,3,4,5,6,...) >=20 > (aka I tried iostat last night - and it seemed that a maxtor 7200 rpm dri= ve > was giving me 6MB -- it seems that other folks get 20MB to 30MB with this > drive... >=20 > (I did cat /dev/ataxxx > /dev/null) Poor benchmark. Use dd with an appropriate block size. Kris --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8yETUWry0BWjoQKURAuo0AJ4hSCdtu6NtZLiGSWUMff51kzh9TwCgzgm5 8MZBqV9tzpJYGl9eQ+5KFgg= =p6VA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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