ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (06/14/90)
In article <2874@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: > ... >The Seagate ST157N which is most probably the one you're talking >about is 46.3 MB only and comes in two flavors: 28 and 40 ms >average access time. (ST157N-1 means fast version, ST157N-0 >means youknowwhatitmeans.) I recently bought a Seagate ST157N in an ICD case, and am quite happy with it, now. How can I determine whether I have an ST157N-1 or an ST157N-0 ?
csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) (06/14/90)
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes: >In article <2874@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> > csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: >> ... >>The Seagate ST157N which is most probably the one you're talking >>about is 46.3 MB only and comes in two flavors: 28 and 40 ms >>average access time. (ST157N-1 means fast version, ST157N-0 >>means youknowwhatitmeans.) >I recently bought a Seagate ST157N in an ICD case, >and am quite happy with it, now. >How can I determine whether I have an ST157N-1 or an ST157N-0 ? Run ICD's RATEHD test which tries to find out the av access time of your drive. The values it calculates, however, aren't very accurate. You might try my HD benchmark CHECKHD which is something like a quasi hard disk standard test here in Germany. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, West Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (06/15/90)
In article <1990Jun13.194128.8246@water.waterloo.edu> I wrote: > >I recently bought a Seagate ST157N ... [ how can i tell ] >... whether I have an ST157N-1 or an ST157N-0 ? The answer seems to be to use RATEHD to find out the spped of the drive, and then compare with posted rates. The program RATEHD comes from ICD and is released for free distribution for all ST users. According to the documentation there is considerable mis-information about hard disk access speeds. This program reads a number of 1K chunks of data from several regions of the disk, and times each of them. It then does and average to report how many K per second get transferred and the average access time. RATEHD is available from the file server called terminator. ( the file Binaries/volume5/ratehd.Z )