On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:00:10PM -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.
> 
> Hm.  Media problems sound bad.  (If that's what it is.)
> 
> Well, maybe this weekend, I'll shuffle things around and see if a
> drive-swap helps.  If so, maybe a new disk drive will make it all better.
> (Microcenter here in Houston is currently having a sale on Western Digital
> drives.  They're not really steals, but if I'm going to buy a new drive
> soon, now might be a good time.)

before doing this you may also want to test this drive with another
IDE controller, just to make sure.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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