[Soekris] Choosing Compact flash (Was: Memory upgrade)

[Esteban Ribičić]

agree, dd is a true *nix tool. What does people use to measure seek
times on CF? I think considering the size of CF , most I/O will last a
few seconds so seek time would come more interesting than plain and
boring R/W...

On 12/18/07, Iustin Pop <iusty at k1024.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:31:48PM +0100, Bent wrote:
> > For what it is worth, here is a measurement done on a 5501 running Gentoo Linux:
> >
> > leopold ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> I would not trust hdparm for [any kind of] benchmarking. As I pointed
> before, use dd with iflag=direct which skips the cache.
>
> regards,
> Iustin
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