[linux-audio-user] Re: OT: ide drives

[Martin Rocamora]

El Jue 21 Oct 2004 18:32, Robert Epprecht escribió:
> Hmm, so maybe it would be less work to try both setups:
>
> 1) both hds as masters, optical drives as slaves.
> 2) hds on one channel, dvds on the other one.
>
> The problem is that i do not really know how to test performance...

To test IDE performance use hdparm.

hdparm -tT /dev/hda 

It can occasionally cause unexpected data corruption but it's very usefull. 
Have a look at: 
http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html

Martín.