No problem. man hdparm and a bit of cut n paste with the help of kwrite.
Besides, what are friends for?
Later
Oh check this out.
bash-2.05b# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 1420 MB in 2.01 seconds = 707.98 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 138 MB in 3.04 seconds = 45.46 MB/sec
bash-2.05b# hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 1392 MB in 2.00 seconds = 695.06 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 152 MB in 3.03 seconds = 50.11 MB/sec
bash-2.05b#
My old 30GB is faster than my new 80GB drive. Go figure. Have to play with that one a bit. :?