Guys, I've heard that hdparm does not run on scsi drives.(SATA included) I've tried to use hdparm anyway, and it gave results. But the results are seriously _out_of_this_world (for me). Can anyone validate these? /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 2416 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1208.18 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 444 MB in 3.02 seconds = 146.90 MB/sec Compared to my Laptop's 80GB (Hitachi) PATA (5400rpm) /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1492 MB in 2.01 seconds = 742.40 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 112 MB in 3.04 seconds = 36.85 MB/sec -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 Neuromancer 13:27:02 up 24 min, 2 users, load average: 0.64, 0.96, 0.64
