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- │ Copyright (C) 1994 and written by │
- │ Johan Zwiekhorst │
- │ - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - │
- └─────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
- *********************************
-
- 1. LEGAL STUFF
- The no-nonsense licence statement
- Warranty
- Contact
- Payment
- What you should have received
-
- 2. INTRODUCTION
-
- 3. USAGE
-
- 4. REVISION HISTORY
-
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- ╒════════════════╕
- │ 1. LEGAL STUFF │
- ╘════════════════╛
-
- This software is copyrighted (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
- and written by Johan Zwiekhorst, hereafter called the Author and Owner.
- All Rights Reserved.
-
- The No-Nonsense Licence Statement
- =================================
- This software and everything enclosed with it are protected by both
- Belgian copyright law and international treaty provisions.
- It is called "freeware".
-
- FREEWARE software may be used, copied and distributed freely for
- NONCOMMERCIAL use only IF:
- ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
-
- NO FEE IS CHARGED FOR USE, COPYING OR DISTRIBUTION.
-
- IT IS NOT MODIFIED IN ANY WAY.
-
- It may be distributed ONLY in it's original, unmodified compressed
- package file. ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This means you may not add comments to the compressed package file
- (also known as an archive file or simply an archive), nor may you
- delete files from or add files to the archive file, UNLESS YOU HAVE
- A WRITTEN PERMISSION TO DO SO.
-
- Converting the archive file to another compression method or
- another archive file format is allowed, provided that the above
- conditions are met.
-
- The original package as released by me is in Yoshi's LZH archive
- format. (See below for what you should have received.)
- In order to extract the files from an LZH archive under DOS, you
- will need to get the file LHA***.EXE, where '***' stands for the
- version number of the program LHA. At the time this is written,
- the latest version is 2.13, so look for LHA213.EXE.
- If you are using OS/2, look for Peter Fitzsimmons' LH2 archiver.
- The latest version of LH2 is 2.22, so look for LH2_222.EXE.
- Note, that recompressing the archive will nearly always result
- in a bigger archive.
-
- The use of FREEWARE software is prohibited in a governmental
- or commercial situation. In these cases, this software must be
- purchased and a Commercial Licence Statement will then be provided
- for. You may write to the Owner at the address below for more
- information.
-
- Warranty
- ========
- This software is provided AS IS without any warranty, expressed or
- implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular
- purpose.
- IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR/OWNER OF THIS PRODUCT BE LIABLE FOR
- ANY DIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGES WHICH MAY HAVE ARISEN
- FROM THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT.
- If your local law does not permit any of the statements made above,
- or if you do not agree with any of them yourself, THEN YOU ARE NOT
- LICENCED TO USE THIS PROGRAM!
-
- Contact
- =======
- The Author can be reached via a Bulletin Board System (BBS) and
- electronic mail at the Tripod BBS.
-
- Phone lines:
-
- [due to a move, none are currently available]
-
- Network addresses:
-
- Internet jz@f118.n292.z2.fidonet.org
- Compuserve >INTERNET:jz@f118.n292.z2.fidonet.org
- FIDOnet 2:292/118
-
- The Owner can be contacted at the following address:
-
- Johan Zwiekhorst
- Dorpheidestraat 63/B
- 3590 DIEPENBEEK (Belgium)
-
- Payment
- =======
- If you would like to use this product in a commercial or
- governmental situation, please contact the Owner at the address
- above. You will then learn the price of the product and a
- Commercial Licence Statement will be made available to you.
-
- For all others, this product is free, as mentioned before.
- But if you would like to support the Author and encourage him to
- write more useful software, you're welcome to pay some money.
- You may pay whatever you feel the product is worth to you.
- Note that this kind of freeware products is developed entirely in
- the Author's leisure time and he receives absolutely no
- compensation for it, apart from what you as a user would pay him.
-
- If you pay at least U.S. $15 (BEF 500, NLG 30, DEM 25), you will
- receive, when available, a 5.25" or 3.5" floppy diskette with the
- next version. Please specify which.
- Immediately after receiving your payment, I will send you
- an acknowledgement and a list of the latest versions of all
- freeware I wrote. Payments to the Author can be sent in cash to the
- address mentioned above or transferred to one of the following bank
- accounts:
- Bank Brussel Lambert (Belgium) - account number 335-0076382-89
- Rabobank (Netherlands) - account number 1059.19.519
-
- ***NOTE THAT THIS IS FOR NON-COMMERCIAL SITUATIONS ONLY!
-
- For all payments made: please specify NAME and VERSION NUMBER of
- the product!
-
-
- What you should have received:
- ==============================
-
- You should have received the file
-
- HDTST213.LZH - (9717 bytes)
-
- with the following contents:
-
- ┌──────────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────────────────────────┐
- │ filename │ │bytes│ │ description │
- └══════════┘ └═════┘ └═════════════════════════┘
- FILE_ID .DIZ 234 A short description of the software
- for BBS Operators.
- HDTEST .DOC 10870 This documentation.
- HDTEST .EXE 5261 The program file. CRC/32 = 40c87636
-
- You may also use the program VALIDATE from McAfee Associates for
- the purpose of checking the authenticity of the program file(s).
- It should produce the following:
-
- File Name: hdtest.exe
- Size: 5,261
- Date: 1-5-1994
- File Authentication:
- Check Method 1 - FE63
- Check Method 2 - 1470
-
-
-
- ╒═════════════════╕
- │ 2. INTRODUCTION │
- ╘═════════════════╛
-
- This program is intended for measuring the speed of hard disks
- or partitions thereof. It will perform two tests.
- The first one will write 1000 records of 1000 bytes each to the
- hard disk and time that operation.
- The second test will then sweep-read those 1000 records and
- time this, too.
- The two timing results could then be used for comparison with
- other hard disks or with other interleave factors of the disk.
-
- Why records of 1000 bytes? Well, it seemed to me that this is
- the most logical figure, since it makes sure that each record
- crosses sector boundaries. This forces DOS to perform multiple
- accesses in order to write (or read) each record.
- This also means, that as much time as possible is wasted for
- each read or write. This is necessary, because the results
- could otherwise be favorably influenced by caching provisions,
- if present.
-
- Sweep-reading means sweeping the heads of the hard disk back
- and forth while reading records. This is done by first reading
- record 1, then record 1000, then 2, then 999, and so on until
- record 500 is read.
-
- The two tests should give adequate comparison figures, since
- both sequential and random access is used.
-
- The tests may be used for determining the best possible
- interleave factor for your hard disk.
- They can NOT be used, however, for determining the best
- possible cluster size for DOS FAT volumes, since that depends
- heavily upon the kind of application(s) you have.
-
-
-
- ╒══════════╕
- │ 3. USAGE │
- ╘══════════╛
-
- Command line syntax is:
-
- HDtest [d]
-
- where [d] means a drive designator, i.e. the letter C for drive
- C, and so forth.
- The square brackets indicate that the drive designator is
- optional and should themselves not be typed.
-
- If the drive designator is not specified, the program will use
- the current drive for testing.
-
- Note, that HDtest does NOT check whether the drive to be used
- is a hard disk or not.
- It does check, however, if there is enough disk space left for
- conducting the test successfully.
- An error message will be given if this is not the case.
-
-
-
- ╒═════════════════════╕
- │ 4. REVISION HISTORY │
- ╘═════════════════════╛
-
- Ver. Comment
- ~~~~ ~~~~~~~
- 2.13 - Made sure the test records contain random data, so that
- real-time data compression software will not influence
- the test favourably.
- OS/2 version compiled with a patched version of Borland
- Pascal with Objects v7.0 and the DOS version compiled with
- the standard version of BPwO v7.0.
- 2.12 - Recompiled with Turbo Pascal v5.5, new documentation and
- license. Other than cosmetic, no changes.
- 2.11 - Adapted for Turbo Pascal v5.0.
- Changed the header, too. Nice, huh?
- 2.10 - Added performance indication, relative to the
- IBM/XT and the PS/2 model 60.
- 2.00 - Completely rewritten in Turbo Pascal v4.00.
- Added support for multiple drives.
- 1.00 - Base version (Turbo Pascal v3.02).
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