From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hh4er-0004bE-2s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:09:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3QE7bD8001663; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:07:37 GMT Received: from smtp43.singnet.com.sg (smtp43.singnet.com.sg [165.21.103.151]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3QE7ZLH001658 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:07:36 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.118] (bb219-74-207-104.singnet.com.sg [219.74.207.104]) by smtp43.singnet.com.sg (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3QE7WoU004313 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:07:32 +0800 Message-ID: <4630B225.6010107@singnet.com.sg> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:07:33 +0800 From: "P.V.Anthony" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hard Drive Stress Test Application References: <463017AD.7050401@singnet.com.sg> <20070426033342.GE9934@ifa.hawaii.edu> <7c08b4dd0704252045k2c5d698aq20e32b3ce0cd017f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7c08b4dd0704252045k2c5d698aq20e32b3ce0cd017f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 88c3e1a9-a24f-4f00-88c9-2a0a5d349d40 X-Archives-Hash: a97d12f89fa4154c73b42514f85bff9f On this day, 26-April-2007 11:45 AM, Peter Davoust wrote: > I like the last two ideas, send me pictures once you've tried it. > Seriously, there must be some way to "overclock" your data bus, other > than that I'm not sure there's much you can do with hard disks. As far > as I know that kind of stuff is governed by the CPU, so overclocking the > CPU might give you're drive a run for it's money, although I imagine > motherboards these days are smarter than the 8085 board sitting on my > desk. Realisticly, the only way I could see stress testing them would be > through some kind of overclocking or pulling clocking capacitors from > your motherboard which I'm assuming you don't want to do. Why do you > want to stress test them anyway? Just wanted to be sure that I patched the kernel properly. I patched it manually. So I am not sure if I have done everything correctly. Want to be sure that the drives will not just unmount or hang. P.V.Anthony -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list