Michael >This sounds like you are using the block device and not the raw >device on NetBSD (e.g. /dev/ld0d instead of /dev/rld0d). For >comparisons with diskutility you should also use a much larger >block size (e.g. 1024k). dd if=/dev/rdk0 of=/dev/null bs=1024k ^C93836+0 records in 93836+0 records out 98394177536 bytes transferred in 258.920 secs (380017679 bytes/sec)
# dd if=/dev/rdk1 of=/dev/null bs=1024k ^C57226+0 records in 57226+0 records out 60005810176 bytes transferred in 207.282 secs (289488764 bytes/sec) So how do I increase read writes to my drive.. to I need to write with 1024k block.. but the server is going to be used as database and not file sharing. Any tweaks you can recommend.. I am using gpt for configure the drive.. Derrick Lobo
