From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 11:29:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1FB16A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:29:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FCF43D2D for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tony@sequeira.com) Received: from [212.159.42.85] (helo=nova.sequestor.lan) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1B58dN-000Pxz-MY for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:29:21 +0000 Received: by nova.sequestor.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0E421634; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:29:21 +0000 (GMT) From: "S. Anthony Sequeira" To: FreeBSD List Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Great Holm, Milton Keynes Message-Id: <1079897360.1832.10.camel@nova.sequestor.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:29:21 +0000 Subject: Checking disk performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:29:24 -0000 Hi, I would like to know how my IDE hard disk is performing under FreeBSD, and improve throughput if required. Is there anything like Linux's hdparm that I can use to at least check disk performance. 4.9 Stable, Cheers -- Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way. -- Daniele Vare