can't say whether your values are right,but this site might help some
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 October 2000 11:36 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hdparm and hd performance Hello, I have two IBM 75GXP 15.3G harddrives. The IBM website states that this particular drive can sustain data transfer rates of 37MB/sec. I am attempting to use hdparm to check my harddrive performance. I get the following values: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.64 seconds = 2.96 MB/sec Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.09 seconds =117.43 MB/sec I am fairly certain that I am using ATA/66 as that is what my BIOS tells me. So, my question is: am I missing something completely obvious or are these performance values way below the stated specs? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -Anthony. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
