Re: [LIH] Re: hdparm with kernel2.4.1

[Ashwin D]

On Monday 23 April 2001 10:44, you wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ashwin D wrote:
> > Just renewing this thread to report a suggestion, Rajesh try:
> > hdparm -t /dev/hdaN (N is the / OR /home partition). The speed reported
> > was 20 mb/s for me - which is good.
>
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> nice understatement ;) 
Heh :)

> Never knew that one can set hdparm on a partition
> basis. So one can have different partitions having different settings on
> the same disk
Not sure if u can *set* it - just the test results (with -t) are very 
different. mine was around 9 mb/s for /dev/hda. 

Ashwin

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