Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

[John Richard Smith]

Stephen Kuhn wrote:

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 21:42, John Richard Smith wrote:

 

My 40 g Maxtor gives,
hdparm -tT /dev/hda
     Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.56 seconds =228.57 MB/sec
     Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.67 seconds = 38.32 MB/sec
John
   

...show off...(g)

 

No, Honestly, is that good bad or indifferent,

hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

Model=MAXTOR 6L040J2, FwRev=AR1.0400, SerialNo=662134540297
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1818kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78177792
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1:  1 2 3 4 5
I should put hdparm -tT /dev/hd   in   /etc/sysconfig/harddisks    ?
me thinks,
John

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