one more _important_ piece of information. these tests will only give you sustained data tranfer. it won't give you burst speeds. the important consequence is that there's no way (that i know of) to differentiate between a UDMA 66 and UDMA 100 drive. i've been trying to figure out this one for awhile now.
reference: linux-kernel mailing list. it's been asked many times. it may be in the lkml faq. pete begin Stephen M. Helms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rod Roark wrote: > > >hdparm -t is probably what you want. "man hdparm" for > >details. > > > I missed in my last post that you tried the -I option. Rod is correct > that the -t option will report the read speed of the drive. This will > not tell you the speed the actual disk is capable of. You can > experiment with hdparm to fine tune the speed. > > Stephen _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
