Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

["Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:47:37AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:46:46AM -0700, Dan Owens wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chip Rose wrote:
> > 
> > Another thing you might want to check is if your hard drive needs
> > dma turned on.  What speed does "hdparm -t /dev/hda" give you?
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 18.06 seconds =  3.54 MB/sec
> 
> do i need to turn dma on?

You be the judge:

# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.75 seconds =170.67 MB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.78 seconds = 35.96 MB/sec

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Jamin W. Collins