[PLUG] Throttled SATA (was) T60 QXGA

[Galen Seitz]

Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Something to look at.  I've also heard stories that some Thinkpads
> have slowdown problems with some very large SATA drives.  I'm booted
> to my distro, installed on a Seagate SATA-2 500GB drive, and I will 
> run speed tests in the morning (a cheesy C program that writes lots
> of bytes to a file, then reads lots of bytes from the file).  

Any particular reason for rolling your own rather than using bonnie?
http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/

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Galen Seitz
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