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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Which do I have (Was: Questions about hardware)
Keywords: Segate
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.162345.20850@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 90 16:23:45 GMT
References: <2874@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1990Jun13.194128.8246@water.waterloo.edu>
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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 )