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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Q: control panel and HD-controller
Message-ID: <3128@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 26 Sep 90 09:57:16 GMT
References: <1362@tnosoes.izf.tno.nl>
Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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joep@tnosoes.izf.tno.nl (Joep Mathijssen) writes:

>(2) Internally I swapped my SH204 disk with a 69MB harddisk. It works
>    fine except for some statistic programs. The new harddisk should be
>    about 28ms, but RATEHD gives 60ms and another program even -8ms (?!?).
>    Someone told me that this was caused by an error in the SH204 interface
>    and that the disk IS 28ms, but different values are returned when
>    running statistics. Is that possible or what? Is there another way
>    to check the disks access-time?
The SH204 host adapter doesn't return any status other than 0. This makes
many programs go wild that try to get some error codes from your hard disk;
maybe including the access rate test programs you were using.

This reminds me that I wanted to post my new CHECKHD version on the net.
This is a hard disk test program of mine. I never posted a program, so
can somebody possibly help me? Tnx so much.

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