On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:27:34PM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > Can you try the attached program ?
> > usage: /usr/bin/time ./tst /dev/rwd0d 1000
> 
>         1.61 real         0.00 user         0.05 sys

This makes 39MB/s on the IDE bus, not that bad. Maybe your disk has
problems reading from the media and has to try several time for each read ?
I can't explain this otherwise.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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