[CentOS] hdparm equivalent for SATA

Fri Nov 10 14:08:31 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 at 8:57am, Jerry Geis wrote

> I was wanting to run the equivalent of "hdparm -Tt /dev/hda"
> except on a SATA hard disk. What is the equivalent
> command for an SATA drive?
>
> I was wanting to see what kind of speed I am getting on the
> SATA drive.

I've never been a fan of hdparm's speed testing.  'bonnie++ -f' is 
probably the quickest and most analogous.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University