From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Subject: scsi hdparm Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 06:06:16 +0200 Message-ID: <446BF2B8.4090201@arrakis.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org My SCSI hd (DDRS 34560) is described by Hitachi as 7200 RPM 'read seek time' 7.5ms My IDE hd (ST320410A, ATA) is described by Seagate as 5400 RPM 'average read time' 9.9ms But hdparm -tT reports slower speeds for the scsi. Does this make sense? Are my dreams of improved video performance shattered? Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs