From owner-aic7xxx Wed Jan 6 14:45:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17356 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu (konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.35.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17350 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:45:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amlai@columbia.edu) Received: from localhost (amlai@localhost) by konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA06883; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:41:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:41:19 -0500 (EST) From: Albert Max Lai Reply-To: Albert Max Lai To: Ricky Beam cc: st0658@student-mail.jsu.edu, roe@spl-spindel.de, AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI speed with IBM DGVS09U (8 GB) hard drive, Linux In-Reply-To: <199901061853.NAA23329@defiant.interpath.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Ricky Beam wrote: > If in doubt, test the transfer speed with 'hdparm -Tt' OK, here's what you should be getting for a DGVSO9U: /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 0.64 seconds =100.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 2.00 seconds =16.00 MB/sec I'm fairly certain that that is about right since going back through the archives, someone else had produced about the same results (16.16 MB/sec) with an IBM DGVS09U. -- Albert Lai 1018D East Campus Residential Computer Consultant 411 W. 116th St. Columbia University New York, NY 10027 http://www.columbia.edu/~aml61 (212)853-4854 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message