[PLUG] Hard drive benchmarking for Linux?
Steven Raymond
stever at woo-hoo.com
Sun May 5 00:02:41 UTC 2002
So a friend told me to add the following bit to my grub.conf file to
"enable" ATA66 or ATA100 speeds on my ATA100 drives:
ide0=ata66
Apparently "ata66" is sufficient to get even ata100 speeds, as I
understand this parameter.
1) Is passing this arg to the kernel truly necessary for the drive to
operate at ATA100 speeds?
2) Can anyone recommend a good disk throughput benchmarking utility so
that I can test with & without? I am probably imagining it, but it
actually seems slower when I use the parameter than without.
To further complicate things, I have a Highpoint 370 ATA100 RAID
controller onboard (had to specially compile that support into my
kernel). Any special considerations regarding #1 above?
Thanks!
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