great. thank you. Abe >===== Original Message From Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Abe wrote: > >>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. > >You can use 'hdparm' for that. > >Paul > >-- >Dislexics of the world untie! > >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.
