I know what the drive is rated at. Its a 5400 rpm ATA66 (UDMA) 17.4 gig drive from Western Digital. I just assumed that telling linux to use harddrive optimizations would imply using the full capabilities of the drive. I'm going to try setting it to use a ata66 next time I boot. What I was interested in was if there is a way to get linux to tell me what actual transfer speed it is getting from the drive. Abe >===== Original Message From Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Abe wrote: > >UDMA 66 is a lot faster than a regular (E)IDE interface. It also helps if >you have a harddrive that runs 7200 rpm instead of 5400 rpm. This should >be mentioned on the drive itself. > >Paul > >>Hey, if you tell me how to do that I will gladly post my numbers. I've got a >>UDMA 66 drive and the boot up claims it is using 33mhz system bus for it but I >>don't know how to get solid numbers. This is neat. I'm really enjoying the >>multitude of conversations going on in teh list these days. Learning as lot >>too. Thanks everybody! > >-- >In a world without walls and fences >who needs windows or gates? > >http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 > -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
