On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:01:31AM -0500, mikpolniak wrote: > Last week after i installed potato on a new system i ran > hdparm to test the new ibm ata66 drive and it showed reads of > 32mb/sec. Since then the only changes i've made have been > apt-get installs which have increased my disk usage to 895mb. > Now hdparm consistently tests reads at around 28-29 mb/sec. hdparm is not good for HD-benchmarks. Try bonnie instead. Phil