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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Which do I have (Was: Questions about hardware)
Keywords: Segate
Message-ID: <2887@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 14 Jun 90 14:50:53 GMT
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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.


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