[ltp] Anyone still using Thinkpad 600?

[Eric Cooper]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:59:15PM +0100, Tomek Jarzynka wrote:
> I recently pulled my good ol' entry model of Thinkpad 600 (2645-310)
> with the purpose of using it as a router.
> All is well, but two issues arose:
> 1) disk performance. The machine has an original IBM-DYKA-23240 3.2G
>    disk and the highest "timing buffered disk reads" value that I can
>    get in hdparm is around 6MB. If by any chance someone has a similar
>    machine, what is the disk throughput in your case?

On my TP600, with a 4GB disk, hdparm -t gives 5.62MB/s.

I use mine as a wireless access point with the hostap driver.
It's been very stable:
 10:26:54 up 372 days, 19:00,  2 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u