[ltp] Re: [FYI] Enabling full SATA II speed on T61/X61 ThinkPads

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 00:43:09 +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output bs=8k count=256k
> >> 262144+0 records in
> >> 262144+0 records out
> >> -2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 23.389 s, 91.8 MB/s
> >> +2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 18.7319 s, 115 MB/s
> > I think something like this would give better results:
> > sync ; time { dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output bs=8k count=256k ; sync ; }
> 
> Or you could try "hdparm -tT /dev/foo"

Results for hdparm are already posted in the original mail.

Regards,
Tino