Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng 
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:35 +, James wrote:
 Bill Roberts billbalt at eyeofthequark.com writes:
 
 
  I inherited two Western Digital Raptor 74G SATA drives. 
 
 
  hdparm -Tt /dev/md0
 
  /dev/md0:
  Timing cached reads:   3080 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1538.70 MB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads:  410 MB in  3.00 seconds = 136.46 MB/sec

Not sure.. but hdparm is supposed to be only accurate for IDE isn't it?

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[gentoo-user] Re: OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-28 Thread James 
A. Khattri ajai at bway.net writes:

  Any specfic controller cards recommendations for SATA(2) are
  of interest too.

 http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html


This is a rather cool list. Very convenient.

Thanks!

James



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[gentoo-user] Re: OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-27 Thread James 
Bill Roberts billbalt at eyeofthequark.com writes:


 I inherited two Western Digital Raptor 74G SATA drives. 


 hdparm -Tt /dev/md0

 /dev/md0:
 Timing cached reads:   3080 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1538.70 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  410 MB in  3.00 seconds = 136.46 MB/sec

Those are impressive numbers.
Thanks,

James

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