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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE drives: good or evil?
Message-ID: <272@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 15:07:13 GMT
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john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:

>Is there a Coretest-like program out there which reads, say, 10 contiguous
>megabytes from a drive to measure the transfer rate?  This should
>defeat just about any hardware or software cacheing mechanism.

	Try TESTDISK, distributed by Western Digital and Columbia Data.
It not only allows one to specify the size of the transfer, but also runs
the tests with different block sizes (1-2-4-8-16-32-64K, as I recall.)
For a multi-tasking write (for those running UNIX, say) try the 'bench'
program (source in UnixWorld, February, 89).

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