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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: HEADSUP ATA support for newer SiS chipsets added
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To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:28:26 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Monday,  3 December 2001 at  9:08:59 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> > It seems Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>>
> >>> for n in 1 2 3 4 5
> >>> do
> >>>     dd if=/dev/adX of=/dev/null bs=512K count=1
> >>
> >> Don't you mean
> >>
> >>       dd if=/dev/ad$n of=/dev/null bs=512K count=1
> >>
> >> ?
> >
> > No, I mean it exactly as written (X is the number of the disk to test).
> 
> Ah, you mean just do it 5 times?

Yeps, the idea here is that I want the drive to cache the data, so that
I can get the raw interface speed, that will show if the ATA modes
has been set correctly....

-Søren

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