You are right about the 10 percent hdparm is kinda suckey when it comes to giving absolute resulte but it will give you a general idea of what the disks are doing. I didn't reassign the disks when installing debian, I basically just booted into debian deleted the partitions that were there from redhat and re-partitioned and then went on with the install.
>>> Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/22/03 15:37 PM >>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:41, Doug Griswold wrote: > I installed the Red Hat kernel and performance was affected some but not > much. I now get between 50-56Mb/s but still not close to the 70Mb/s of > before. Is hdparm accurate enough to determine a <10% difference? I suspect that your results so far don't show an improvement from the RH kernel. > I'm not sure what you mean here "Also did you > re-create the RAID device in the process of installing Debian?" if you > could explain this to me a little more that would be good. I really Re-assigning the disks to a RAID device. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]