On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 11:17, Trevor Smith wrote: > On September 16, 2004 10:02 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I'm running on an Hitachi/IBM 5400rpm 80GB 8MB Cache and I get > > > > /dev/hda: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 1284 MB in 2.00 seconds = 641.46 MB/sec > > Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.05 seconds = 34.78 MB/sec > > I've got some sort of 40 GB 4200RPM (don't know how much cache) disk in my > laptop and I'm getting: > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 420 MB in 2.01 seconds = 209.20 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 34 MB in 3.10 seconds = 10.97 MB/sec This must be an old laptop which does not have ATA100 or something like that. I get that kind of speed my my old but trusty Dell 166MMX w 72MB ram on RH8 > > changes to hdparm make no difference in the above stats. > > -- > Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 18:43:21 up 21:56, 2 users, load average: 0.72, 2.24, 2.28
