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

[Tino Keitel]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:10:41 +0800, Cowyn Li wrote:

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>  $ 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 ; }

Regards,
Tino