Re: ABIT BP6 & UDMA-66: Support for Debian Linux

[Chuan-kai Lin <cklin@oink.cc.ntu.edu.tw>]

Wilson Yau <wyau@wilbe.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Does anyone know how hdparm works?  How accurate (in what sense) does
> the figure reflect the performance (esp data read-write access rate) of
> a tested hard drive?

Not very much accurate I suppose.  For me it works more or less
like bogomips: just a number you can use to tell if something is
terribly wrong.  If you want more real-world benchmarking, maybe
bonnie would be a better idea.

-- Chuan-kai Lin