If you have Xenix 386, run this for me
Steven M. List
itkin at mrspoc.Transact.COM
Mon Jan 28 06:12:46 AEST 1991
bill at bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
>In article <N025FC.91Jan17133808 at tamuts.tamu.edu> n025fc at tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) writes:
>> In article <1991Jan16.094432.21159 at eng.ufl.edu> jc at 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.
>
>>I did and it took 33 seconds, system load was minimal at the time. I
>>have version 2.3.3, an IDE controller and a Conner 105 meg drive.
>
>Ran this on an IBM 80, 20MHz '386, 2 megs memory, 110 Meg IBM ESDI
>drive, Xenix 2.2.3, and got 1:48.9 real time using the time command.
UCK - I ran this on my Everex Step 25, DPT controller with 12.5MB cache
RAM, MAXTOR 650+MB disk, minimal load - 68 SECONDS! I'm astounded.
Sigh. This is, as asked, SCO XENIX (v2.3.3).
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