On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:48:27PM +1300, Atom Smasher wrote:
> i've got this running in one term:
> systat -iostat 1
> and this in another term:
> dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=123456 | md5
>
> apparently the system only knows about throughput of mounted disks?
It doesn't seem to know about ata CD drives, SCSI CD drives work fine.
Use gstat, which retrieves statistics at a different layer.
You should use a multiple of 2k (e.g. 64k) for blocksize though.
Just using 2k is likely to be much slower.
> is that a bug or a feature?
I would say it's a missing feature in acd driver.
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