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From: alan@ahmcs.com (Alan Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: If you have Xenix 386, run this for me
Message-ID: <153@ahmcs.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 19:58:32 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.094432.21159@eng.ufl.edu> <1991Jan27.191246.18823@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
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   In article <1991Jan16.094432.21159@eng.ufl.edu> jc@joker.mil.ufl.edu (Jim Castleberry) writes:
 
>   Someone with Xenix 386 do me a favor and try the following on your
>   machine (you'll have to be root to open the device).
>	   dd if=/dev/rhd00 of=/dev/null bs=100k count=100
>   It's absolutely harmless - just reading 10 meg into the bit bucket.
>   I'd like to know how many seconds it took, plus your Xenix version,
>   controller type, and disk type if you know them.  I expect it to take
>   between 10 seconds and 2 minutes.

Dell 310 (20Mhz 386DX), 338Mb Micropolis 16ms ESDI with Ultrastor 12F.
SCO XENIX 2.3.2(3) 878K buffers:

$ time dd if=/dev/rhd00 of=/dev/null bs=100k count=100

real        17.3
user         0.0
sys          3.0

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