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Re: At last, Omer bought a CD-ROM drive.
At 01:05 AM 12/15/95 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, Omer Zak wrote:
>
>> By the way, my CD-ROM is Toshiba XM-3701B, which claims to have 6.7x
>> speed. It has SCSI interface. The cost was $570 (not including SCSI
>OUCH! almost 3x the price of my 4.4 speed Toshiba for IDE, or double the
>price of the 4.4 Toshiba SCSI! can't be worth it...
What Toshiba model is IDE and 4.4X? I have the XM5302B, which as far as I
know, is only 4X.
>> I am curious to know if and what benchmarking programs are available
>> under Linux (for hard disk and CD-ROM performance - singly and
>> simultaneously).
>what could be easyer? just do a dd to /dev/null and clock it (and take
>into account that Linux's /dev/null is a bit slow, maybe try to your HD)
Doesn't Linux has a 'time' command?
Udi