If you have Xenix 386, run this for me

[Steven M. List]

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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