From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 8: 6: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omnix.net (omnix.net [195.154.168.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3C9E15023 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:05:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from didier@omnix.net) Received: (qmail 12595 invoked by uid 200); 22 Oct 1999 15:05:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Oct 1999 15:05:48 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 15:05:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Didier Derny To: gkaplan Cc: Questions Subject: Re: disk speed In-Reply-To: <3810675B.AE99F983@castle.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, I the same disk at home, it's a 7200 rpm but is wrongly reported as 3600rpm by disklabel. I get about 14 mbytes/s with 'iozone 250' On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, gkaplan wrote: > The following is from tech support of the supplier of my recently purchased > disk. > > tech wrote: > > > RPM speeds are normally set by the design engineer and cannot be changed. > > I am not familiar with the specific drive you mention below, but from the > > rpms you say are reported, it must be a laptop drive, for which 3600 rpm is > > not unusual. > > > > At 11:47 AM 10/21/99 -0400, you wrote: > > >I have an IBM-DJNA-371350 for which the disklabel (from FreeBSD) reports > > >3600 rpm. My question is: Is the rpm a controllable feature of this > > >drive? If it is where is the control applied? > > > > > Does this mean that there is an cosmetic error in the output from 'disklabel' > ? > Is there a different list to which to which it would be more appropriate to > post this message . > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message