On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:56:46AM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > ugh, this is very old, back in the 10G/platter days. > considering that 60G/platter ship now, and all new disks > are 30-40G/platter. > > out of curiosity, what does hdparm say about the low-level speed > of this disk? * hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.73 seconds =175.34 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.22 seconds = 28.83 MB/sec * hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 1868/255/63, sectors = 30015216, start = 0 busstate = 1 (on) * hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=Maxtor 51536U3, FwRev=DA6207V0, SerialNo=K304R35C Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=30015216 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 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 -- L1: khromy ;khromy(at)lnuxlab.ath.cx