RE: Quick question for all you Linux bods...

["Ady Joy" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I should make you wait a few more days just for the sandals and
lentils jibe, but I'd hate to miss one of the few opportunities when I
might
actually be able to help. ;-p

For starters, try the 'hdparm' command (that's right - from the command
line...). Specifically run;

hdparm -t /dev/xxx

where xxx is the drive device designator. If you need more help with the
device designator, just holler (if you need a hint, run the 'mount'
command).

Warning; the hdparm command has some very interesting options, and if you
look at the man page you'll understand why some of them could send your
drive to titsup.com, so be careful. The -t option is completely safe.

This will give you a simple transfer rate; my ide disk came in at 47Mb/s,
and my usb 1.1 disk at 0.75Mb/s !!

HTH

Ady

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:51 AM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Quick question for all you Linux bods...
>
>
> ...where can I get sandals from and how much are lentils? Oh
> yeah - and what's the current "style" for goatee's?
>
> :-D
>
> Nah ... that's not it. I'm (again) doing my "I want to get
> away from Microsoft and so I'm gonna try Linux" thing and
> have a machine set up with "Ubuntu" (which seems quite a
good
> little distro - seems like someone has spent some serious
> effort getting that all up and running and user-friendly) and
> I have it on my network, set up for email, it's seeing my servers etc.
>
> What I was wondering is - does anyone know if there is
> anything out there like SiSoft Sandra but on Linux that I can
> use to find out what kind of transfer speed I'm getting to
> and from the firewire drives that I have here?
>
> (Reason for this desire to move to Linux : After three months
> of being nice and stable my W2k3 Server machine has suddenly
> started giving me occasional "Delayed Write Failure"
messages
> - I know there's feck all wrong with the drives and if I
> reinstalled Windows on teh server it would dissapear but I'm
> getting p'd off with having to do that just to get round this!)
>
> Phil
>

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