S.D-REUBEN%KLA.WESLYN%Wesleyan.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (Doug Reuben) (12/05/86)
Glenn-
I use Locksmith 5.0 all the time for my disk drive speed check. You can
just open up the drive, boot the program, put in a blank disk (a "scratch
disk") and adjust the speed as the drive is operating. There are three
separate modes -fine, medium, and coarse - which you can use to make
adjustments according to a moving line that appears on the screen telling
you how far "off" from the proper drive speed that an Apple drive should
have (I forget exactly what it is...)
Give it a try, I'm sure you'll find that it meets most of your needs
for setting your drive's speed.
Good luck!
-Doug
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-------D7314@UWAVM.BITNET (12/07/86)
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 86 16:20 PST
From: Patrick Ryan <D7314@UWAVM>
Subject: Disk Speed checks
To: Apple Mailing list <INFO-APPLE@BRL.ARPA>
I've used various disk drive speed checks, and Copy ][+ seems to be the best
of them. This is because it doesn't trash the disk that happens to be in the
disk drive at the time, like Locksmith & Nibbles Away do. (This is based on
experience, not documentation reading... Copy ][ manuels say to use scratch
disks, but I've never had a problem using regular disks in, say, 50 speed
checks.)
Patrick Ryan
(standard disclaimers)