Short: Measure seek performance on device Architecture: m68k-amigaos SeekSpeed V37.12 22 May 1993 Copyright Richard Waspe 1993 Bug fix release. Fixes problem with incorrect detection of 68040 FPU and CPU, and maximum access time display increased to 999.9mS to cope with CD-ROM's. SeekSpeed measures the seek performance of any valid device. It works by using the system's very accurate E clock and measures the time taken for seeking and reading varying numbers of sectors under both sequential and random access. Every test is performed 100 times if possible, and the average reported. The purpose is to give a measure of access and seek times under simulated normal operating conditions, that should bear more resemblance to disk operating speed than manufacturers quoted times. Ideally, it should be used in conjunction with a good data transfer speed tester, like Mike Sinz' DiskSpeed. How long it takes to get information to or from a disk depends on access times, as measured by this program, and data transfer rate, as measured by DiskSpeed et al. SeekSpeed can be run from the CLI or WB, but requires at least V37, 2.04+ of the Operating system and Reqtools library V38 waspy@cix.compulink.co.uk rwaspe@hamlet.adsp.sub.org Fidonet 2:255/72.2 Richard Waspe