timing a hard drive in unixpc

[Bill Carpenter]

Here is a simple question that probably has a simple but diappointing
answer.  Is there a way to measure access times on a UNIXpc?  (By
that, I mean without having to have any extra heavy-duty hardware.)

In other words, if I have a drive that claims average seek times of,
say 28ms, is there are way to measure if it's in the right ballpark?
I'm not interested (much) in measuring stuff like rotation speed of
the platters (sounds like an oscilloscope deal, huh?).

Tx for any info.
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   Bill Carpenter         att!ho5cad!wjc  or  attmail!bill