On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 08:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Only problem is these are SATA drives and they don't tell me much > compared to EIDE drives when using hdparm. Also their error messages > running hdparm are a bit of a concern, although typical from what I've > read. > > lightning ~ # hdparm /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 256 (on) > geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 250059350016, start = 0 > lightning ~ # > lightning ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 2040 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1018.12 MB/sec > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate > ioctl for device > Timing buffered disk reads: 198 MB in 3.02 seconds = 65.62 MB/sec > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate > ioctl for device > lightning ~ # >
You might try sdparm. It doesn't give very much output on my SATA drive, but it's supposed to give more on others. Daniel -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
