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- DiskSpeed 4.0 Limited *Final* version (AW Tech)
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- DiskSpeed v4.0
- by
- Michael Sinz
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- Copyright (c) 1989 by MKSoft Development
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- MKSoft Development
- 163 Appledore Drive
- Downingtown, PA 19335
-
- Yes, this is yet another disk speed testing program, but with a few
- differences. It was designed to give the most accurate results of the
- true disk performance in the system. For this reason many of
- DiskSpeed's results may look either lower or higher than current disk
- performance tests.
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- * *
- * Reading legal mush can turn your brain into guacamole! *
- * *
- * So here is some of that legal mush: *
- * *
- * Permission is hereby granted to distribute this program's source *
- * executable, and documentation for non-commercial purposes, so long as the *
- * copyright notices are not removed from the sources, executable or *
- * documentation. This program may not be distributed for a profit without *
- * the express written consent of the author Michael Sinz. *
- * *
- * This program is not in the public domain. *
- * *
- * Fred Fish is expressly granted permission to distribute this program's *
- * source and executable as part of the "Fred Fish freely redistributable *
- * Amiga software library." *
- * *
- * Permission is expressly granted for this program and it's source to be *
- * distributed as part of the Amicus Amiga software disks, and the *
- * First Amiga User Group's Hot Mix disks. *
- * *
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- *New DOCS are not done yet. They will be rather large...
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- *The current version does not deal with VIDEO DMA overhead tests.
- This will be added in a 2.0-only version...
-
- *The new tests are auto-sizing. Other than the file create/delete
- tests, they will all take about the same amount of time on fast and
- slow systems.
-
- *The % CPU available is the amount of CPU available to a task that
- is running at a low priority (lower than the driver, etc) The %
- is based on the amount of CPU available to this task when it is
- running with no disk activity. The calculations still need to be
- played with a bit, but it should be rather accurate. If you have
- programs running in the background (such as a ray tracer) this will
- make the % CPU invalid.
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- These key words are also available from the TOOLTYPES of the icon.
-
- * NOCPU/S - Turns off the CPU available task.
- New keyword that lets you turn off CPU percentage collection. This is so
- that the secondary task is not created. Seems that just having this task
- around can be enough to throw the performance of the system way off. The
- difference in time it takes to task-switch from STOP to the harddisk driver
- and from a background task and the harddisk driver is sometimes just enough
- to cause a rotation on the disk to be missed. This feature may well be
- removed, but the difference in the numbers is rather interesting. (The
- background task is at -127 priority...)
-
- * MINTIME/K/N - Selects the number of seconds to run each test. (1 to 500)
- New keyword that lets you select the minimum amount of time any test takes.
- This applies to all tests except for the Directory entry create and delete
- tests. Also, note that after the file create speed test, a full 256K file
- is created and this can, on slow systems take some time.
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- * DRIVE/K - select drive (Default is current directory)
- You can use either 'DRIVE <path>' or 'DRIVE=<path>'
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- * COMMENT/K - set comment string
- You can use either 'COMMENT <comment>' or 'COMMENT=<comment>'
-
- * ALL/S - select all tests
- This turns on all of the tests below
-
- * DIR/S - setect DIR tests
- * SEEK/S - select SEEK tests
- * CHIP/S - select CHIP memory buffer tests
- * FAST/S - select FAST memory buffer tests
- * LONG/S - select LONG aligned tests
- * WORD/S - select WORD aligned tests
- * BYTE/S - select BYTE aligned tests
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- * BUF1/K/N - select buffer size 1 (Default = 512)
- * BUF2/K/N - select buffer size 2 (Default = 4096)
- * BUF3/K/N - select buffer size 3 (Default = 32768)
- * BUF4/K/N - select buffer size 4 (Default = 262144)
- Will let you select the buffer sizes for the tests.
- To eliminate a buffer test, set the buffer to 0.
- You can use either 'BUF1 <num>' or 'BUF1=<num>'
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- * WINDOW/S - use the GUI even though started from the CLI
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