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  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  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  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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