Re: ProDOS based disk performace testing software?

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:11:15 -0400, Glenn Jones <rg.jones@rogers.com>
wrote:

>I grabbed a copy of Disktimer. Interesting but limited to GS/OS and 
>there appears to be no way of telling it which drive to test - it tests 
>the one it is run from.
>
>I basically want something that will
>
>a) present a list of PRODOS devices (with size in blocks)
>b) let me select one or more devices to test
>c) allow me to specify the start, end and/or number of blocks to be read
>d) time the reads and present that back as K bytes per second
>
>I am wondering if something was ever published in Nibble to do this 
>sounds like it would have been a typical submission idea.
>
>If not guess I have something else to add to my todo list

Well, I've had several days to think about it and I still can't think
of any other disk timing software.  I remember DiskTimer didn't get a
lot of use either when it first came out.

A utility like that would be kind of neat, especially if it could also
time of AppleShare volumes.  I've always been curious as to how fast
an AppleShare volume is compared to floppy and hard drives.  It should
be a fairly simple program to write but I can't offer to help as I'm
so far behind in my current projects I'm not even sure what all I'm
still working on.  :)

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