When I run hdparm -tT /dev/sda command under CentOS / RHEL I get the following error on screen:
/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 908 MB in 3.00 seconds = 302.39 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
How do I fix this problem?
Q. I’ve downloaded tar ball software but I don’t know how to compile the same? Can you provide the instructions for compiling a program?
A. Many new users find it difficult to compiling programs in Linux. Usually following steps are involved:
a] Download tar ball using wget
b] Untar tar ball using tar command
c] Compile program using [...]