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seneka77 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:34 pm Thanks for sharing, nice app, great shell script sample with GUI.
On my Slacko 64:

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# bash --version
GNU bash, versión 4.2.53(2)-release (x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu)
# uname --all
Linux puppypc5895 4.1.11 #1 SMP Mon Oct 26 11:19:32 EST 2015 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 520  @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I've got the following error in the term when do the check over my hard-disk:
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sh: line 3: numfmt: can't find the command
ERROR
hdparm: invalid option -- '-'
hdparm: invalid number 'irect'
awk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: attempt to access field -1
COMBOBOX="sda"
INPUT="ATA TOSHIBA MK3261GS MB/sec
"
EXIT=" Quit "
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Dunno how to install numfmt, however I've fixed with the simple hdparm (no --direct option) command and format the number in MB, so my hdparm output is in KB:

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speed1="$(hdparm -t /dev/$COMBOBOX)"
speed2=`echo "${speed2:0:(${#speed2}-3)},${speed2:(-3)}"`

Now just need to fix the size part.
Cheers!

puddlemoon wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:58 pm Hi there,

I'd like to display list of sound cards from /proc/asound/cards and have an input box to insert the selection and nickname into to next command. any advice on how to modify it would be great. If you don't mind me doing so of course...

Thanks smokey01 for this application

As in an earlier message, I too have some ancient USB flash drives lying around and now I can see if there still usable.

**EDIT

Also used it to check out the speed of external USB HDD drives. Worked in exactly the same way

smokey01 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:26 am

Recently I wanted to test a few USB Flash drives but I had forgotten the command. A quick look at the murga forums reminded me of the thread I had started there. I have now expanded the simple hdparm command into a simple gtkdialog script.

This is very well done, simple and quick and intuitive,

gychang wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:18 pm

smokey01 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:26 am

Recently I wanted to test a few USB Flash drives but I had forgotten the command. A quick look at the murga forums reminded me of the thread I had started there. I have now expanded the simple hdparm command into a simple gtkdialog script.

This is very well done, simple and quick and intuitive,

@gychang :-

There's also the DriveSpeed! portable package I put together a while back, after getting inspiration from Barry's EasyDD.....which features an on-going readout of real-time speeds as it tests a drive.

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=2836

For straight-forward testing, I recommend the v2.2-portable, attached to the first post. Fred and stemsee took the concept & "ran with it", developing v3 and v4, but much of this was them playing around with YAD GUIs, and seeing just how many 'extras' they could cram in. It became a little bit "OTT" for my liking!

IMHO, v2.2 does all you want - the GUI even has the functions numbered in the order you need to run them, for maximum ease-of-use. To use it, keep a main copy of it somewhere safe; for testing drives, just copy the whole thing to the root of that drive; it's pretty small, and is designed to work "in-situ". It's a ROX-app, so just click on it to run it. When you're done, simply delete the whole thing again.

The 'Help' file explains what to do with it, and how to get the best out of it, depending on age & capabilities of your hardware, and the type of drive you're testing (it'll work with ANY kind of storage drive).

Just another alternative, FWIW.

Mike.

Hi @mikewalsh

DriveSpeed is very nice.

Idea for your consideration
Have you thought to add the 'latest' desktop picture of the latest DriveSpeed version to your opening post, here?

If you feel it worthy.

I bought a new laptop recently and it had a nvme drive. The problem was drivespeed couldn't see it so I added this functionality. Drivespeed should be able to test all types of drives now like: usb, hdd, ssd, mmc, nvme etc.