SeekSpeed3712

Short:        Measure seek performance on device
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

                   SeekSpeed V37.12   22 May 1993

                    Copyright Richard Waspe 1993


  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.

  SeekSpeed measures the seek performance of any valid device.

  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.

  SeekSpeed can be run from the CLI or WB, but requires at least V37,
  2.04+ of the Operating system and Reqtools library V38


  waspy@cix.compulink.co.uk
  rwaspe@hamlet.adsp.sub.org
  Fidonet 2:255/72.2

  Richard Waspe