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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Subject: Re: Final request for help with release.  (DPT boot floppy)
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Hi Tom Samplonius;  On 22-Aug-97 you wrote: 

..

>    For me a "simple" test is a single dd.

Simple it is.  Reflective or indicative of expected workload?
Not necessarily.

Try st.c from my archive instead.  It will do sequential or random,
read only, write only, read-modify-write and probably something else
I forgot.  It even times and computes I/O per second, MB/sec and few other
things.

Simon