On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:26:44AM +0100, Jamie Kitson wrote:
Hi, I got your address after reading about your dd bs speed test. Me and a
friend are having an argument, he recons that your test is tainted by your
hardware... can you prove him wrong for me?
Thanks, Jamie
Jamie, that test was
Dex, nice research ! (-:
A few comments: some details of what you found (and others commented
on) may depend on the intelligence built into the on-board disk controller
(re-mapping bad sectors, buffering I/O, ...)
- The default bs=512 matches a 'sector' (floppy disk, MBR) and also
should
