RE: Disk Drive Performance Test

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On 21 Sep 2001, at 5:57, sephiroth _ wrote:

> 
> you can write a fairly large file(say 800K), read it back, and time both 
> actions, divide by the size of the file in bytes and voila! you've got 
> your trasnfer rate plus OS overhead

Or the error responce time if it's a 360K or 720K floppy.
 blink

Norton had a great system performance tester, back before Windoze 3.1. It 
tested *everything* on a dos box, and showed you where programs loaded, 
did memory dumps, who had what interrupts, etc..

Kat


> C. K. Lester wrote:
> > I want to test the read/write performance of my floppy disk drive on two
> > systems.
> > 
> > Can somebody provide some code that will allow me to do this?
> > 
> > DOS or Win please...
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > ck
> > 
> > 
> 
>

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