The last time I ran hdparm on Mandrake 8.0 I was using
a different ata100 hard drive and was getting timing
buffer disk reads of only 21 MB. I am now using a new
IBM hard drive and I'm getting:  

/dev/hde:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.78 seconds
=164.10 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.73 seconds =
36.99 MB/sec

Abit KT7A raid, VIA KT133A chipset, IBM
IC35L020AVER07-0 20GB hard drive, AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz.
I'm surprised at the difference between my 2 hard
drives, both using pretty standard installs of
Mandrake 8.0.


--- skinky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:47, you wrote:
> > [root@tuxmachine /]#  hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> >  /dev/hda:
> >  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.91
> seconds =140.66 MB/sec
> >  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.78
> seconds = 35.96 MB/sec
> >
> > Using IBM DTLA-307075 7200 rpm and Asus mobo with
> i815 chipset.
> > (But using kernel 2.4.3-20mdk).
> >
> 
> My hd is so much slower than yours!
> Using 60GB IBM DTLA-307060 7200rpm and Soltek
> SL-75KAV mobo with North 
> Bridge VIA VT8363A (KT133A) chipset (and South
> Bridge VIA VT82C686B?) on 
> AMD T-Bird 1.0GHz.
> 
> Using kernel 2.4.3-20mdk with udma2 (ATA-33 ?):
> 
> root@localhost skinky]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>  
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.78
> seconds =164.10 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.14 seconds
> = 20.38 MB/sec
> [root@localhost skinky]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>  
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.77
> seconds =166.23 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.18 seconds
> = 20.13 MB/sec
> 
> Big difference!
> 
> Cheers
> skinky
> 
> > Want to buy your Pack or Services from
MandrakeSoft?
> 
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> 


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