On Sunday 16 July 2006 15:34, J. D. wrote: > hdparm -Tt /dev/hda The whole reason for bringing this up is that something in gentoo is warning me about this at startup. trombone dcorbin # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 832 MB in 2.00 seconds = 415.70 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 10 MB in 3.45 seconds = 2.90 MB/sec