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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD1151] Does iostat work?
Date: 4 Jan 1995 04:13:33 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <mldD1u5FI.DtG@netcom.com>, Matthew Deter <mld@netcom.com> wrote:
>Does iostat work on FBSD 1151?  I always get zeros for my two Adaptec 1742
>SCSI disks.  tty ouput is shown, but that's not very interesting.  :-)

'iostat' works but the drivers for the disks didn't do any of the necessary
work to keep track of the information needed for iostat to give you any
useful information.  This is one of the many things fixed in 2.0.


Nate
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