SeekSpeed V37.12 22 May 1993
Copyright Richard Waspe 1993
Bug fix release. Fixes problem with incorrect detection of 68040
FPU and CPU, and maximum access time display increased to 999.9mS
to cope with CD-ROM's.
SeekSpeed measures the seek performance of any valid device.
It works by using the system's very accurate E clock and measures the
time taken for seeking and reading varying numbers of sectors under
both sequential and random access. Every test is performed 100 times
if possible, and the average reported. The purpose is to give a
measure of access and seek times under simulated normal operating
conditions, that should bear more resemblance to disk operating
speed than manufacturers quoted times. Ideally, it should be used
in conjunction with a good data transfer speed tester, like Mike
Sinz' DiskSpeed. How long it takes to get information to or from a
disk depends on access times, as measured by this program, and data
transfer rate, as measured by DiskSpeed et al.
SeekSpeed can be run from the CLI or WB, but requires at least V37,
2.04+ of the Operating system and Reqtools library V38
waspy@cix.compulink.co.uk
rwaspe@hamlet.adsp.sub.org
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Richard Waspe
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