Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Disk timing Message-ID: <42577@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 15 Jan 91 19:32:49 GMT References: <9101151725.AA25009@apple.com> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 35 In article <9101151725.AA25009@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: |On Tue, 15 Jan 91 06:48:13 GMT Scott A Harris said: |>Is there anyone out there that has/knows of a reliable disk speed checking |>program for 3.5' apple 800k disk drive. Mine keeps eating my disks. |>Or is there maybe something else wrong? | |You're supposed to use a SCRATCH disk! The disk timer writes to the disk at |any place it feels like and times how long it takes what it wrote to spin |around. | |>Thanks | |Sure thang. | |>Scott |> |>-- |>Scott A. Harris sharris @ brahms.udel.edu sharris @ chopin.udel.edu |> HIO01142 @ udelvm.udel.edu |> 71311,2700 @ CompuServe sharris12 @ GEnie | |---------------------------------------- | Michael J. Quinn | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com You mean there really is a speed checker for 3.5" disk? If so, I stand corrected (about my previous post that said that there was no such prog) -- David Huang | Internet: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | "My ganglion is stuck in UUCP: ...!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!ifar355 | a piece of chewing gum!" America Online: DrWho29 |