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- Short: Measure seek performance on device
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- SeekSpeed V37.12 22 May 1993
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- Copyright Richard Waspe 1993
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- 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.
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- SeekSpeed measures the seek performance of any valid device.
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- 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.
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- SeekSpeed can be run from the CLI or WB, but requires at least V37,
- 2.04+ of the Operating system and Reqtools library V38
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- waspy@cix.compulink.co.uk
- rwaspe@hamlet.adsp.sub.org
- Fidonet 2:255/72.2
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- Richard Waspe
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