broode@orion.cf.uci.edu (Brian Roode) (03/21/89)
I've asked this question before with no response but with all the
discussion on HD's, I thought I'd ask it again!
Does anyone know of a program which measures the performance of
a hard disc on an Atari ST? (for the purpose of optimizing the
interleave factor & thus the performance of the disc)
Also, does anyone know of a backup program which will save an
entire disc partition to floppies like the MS-DOS BACKUP program does?
Most of the programs I've seen simply copy all HD files to floppies
and get confused with files which are larger than the size of a single
floppy.
Thanks in advance for any information...
brian
Internet: broode@orion.cf.uci.edual@tolerant.UUCP (Albert Palmer) (03/21/89)
ICD has a program called ratehd that will test all drives on your system and give kbyte/sec and msec. They placed it in the public domain. It will work with all host adapters. al palmer
Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) (03/22/89)
ICD just released a program into the PD called HDRATE which very accuratley measures a hard drives performance as a data transfered rate and a seek time rate. My Seagates run at 550 Kps and 30ms where my old MiniScribe ran at 375 Kps and 62ms. Dave Small has a program in the April (??) iss ue of START magazine that is a Partition Copy program - fast too, will do a 20meg imagine copy to another HD in 80 seconds!! Peter Szymonik
remco@tnoibbc.UUCP (Remco Bruyne) (03/22/89)
In article <4042@tolerant.UUCP> al@tolerant.UUCP (Albert Palmer) writes: >ICD has a program called ratehd that will test all drives on your system >and give kbyte/sec and msec. They placed it in the public domain. It >will work with all host adapters. > >al palmer If it *is* PD, could a copy be placed into comp.binaries.atari.st ? I think my interleave factor is not optimal ... Thanks, Remco -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Remco Bruijne USENET: remco@tnoibbc PHONE: +31 15 606437 ------------------------------------------------------------------