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

[Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cheers ... Someone else emailed me off-list with hdparm too ... I get a
rather crap 17Mbytes/sec to my firewire drives and a truly pathetic
18Mbytes/sec to my IDE hard disc (although it is a pretty old 27Gb
Maxtor).

Now, how about those sandals? And does it have to be any particular type
of socks that I wear with them? :-D

(Oh yeah - and to share the pain I just installed "Ubuntu" on
Jo's
laptop too (completely removing windows too of course) ... so she can
share the experience of learning it from nowt! :-) )

Phil

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 02:04 +0000, Ady Joy wrote:
> 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
> >
>