Which tool to measure disk/HDD speed?

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Hi there, I was wondering what the best tool to measure/benchmark HDD/disk performance on classic Amiga is. I run OS 3.9 BB2 on my A4000D/CPPC and today installed a Acard AEC-7730A + 64 SSD. Good stuff ... but I wanted to compare it to my on-board IDE-controller + CF solution. Now here are my problems:

1. SysInfo 3.24 and 4.00 crash when I run a drive speed on the SSSD (AEC-7730A).

2. SysSpeed 2.6 does want a CPU: drive ... and when I assign this to e.g. DH1: then it actually does not run any tests. I might just be too stupid to use the program. Help is appreciated!

3. DriveSpeed (that comes with FastATA drivers). This one actually works with the cybppc.device (my SSD via AEC-7730A) but does not work with the normal IDE device (via scsi.device) ... and for some reason also HDToolbox does currently hang when I access scsi.device (even though the cybppc.device works fine with HDToolbox).

So not sure what/if something is wrong with my current setup ... but it would help to learn which tools you guys typically use to measure drive speed.

Cheers, Oli

---------- Post added at 17:46 ---------- Previous post was at 17:17 ----------

Okay, I could resolve the CPU: problem with SysSpeed. This was due to a "wrong drive name" in the preferences. Now that I got this fixed, I could do some drive speed tests. Good stuff. So is this what people use to compare their speed with others? Is there any "sticky" thread where people post their top-speed? Thanks. Oli
 
hi normally sysinfo and syspeed is used for speed testing

but these tools are not very accurate
 
Thanks. I finally got SysSpeed to run my Disk-Performance-Test on my A4000D (after selecting the right device in the prefs). I got about 10 MB/sec with my ACard and SSD ... but saw that others had around 25-30 MB/sec. How is this possible? Is there anything I can tune/tweak?

And another question: Is there a know problem with SysSpeed and Mediator 1200 TX??? It's because it hangs on my A1200 Tower (with Mediator 1200 TX) - hence can't run any SysSpeed tests on my A1200. Specs are: A1200, Blizzard 1260, SCSI-Kit, Mediator 1200 TX, ATX-PSU, Radeon 9250 128 MB Graphics-Card, 100 MBit Fast Ethernet Card, 4 GB CF-Card attached to internal IDE.

Oli
 
Wow, that's it. Thanks. Now I have 25-29 MB/Sec. measured with SysSpeed on my A4000D. Good stuff - thanks a lot!

However, I still have to find out why SysSpeed hangs on my A1200T with Mediator.

Oli
 
C16Oli said:
Wow, that's it. Thanks. Now I have 25-29 MB/Sec. measured with SysSpeed on my A4000D. Good stuff - thanks a lot!

However, I still have to find out why SysSpeed hangs on my A1200T with Mediator.

Oli
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No problem, just glad to help.
Are you able to save the settings between boots?
 
Kawazu said:
C16Oli said:
Wow, that's it. Thanks. Now I have 25-29 MB/Sec. measured with SysSpeed on my A4000D. Good stuff - thanks a lot!

However, I still have to find out why SysSpeed hangs on my A1200T with Mediator.

Oli
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No problem, just glad to help.
Are you able to save the settings between boots?
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With regards to saving the settings: Nope, that does not work. Hence I added a unitcontrol ... line to my startup-sequence. Now it's fine. However, I learned (via Google) that maybe my termination or cable is not quite right and therefore the controller does not go to full speed automatically. I will try this soon with another cable and proper termination on both ends. We will then see if the system goes to full speedf (25-28 MB/sec) even without the unitcontrol line in the startup-sequence.

Cheers, Oli
 
This is the string that i used in my startup



UnitControl Device=cybppc.device Unit=0 Period=20 Offset=10 Wide Reselection FWC
 
Hi,

as I recently experienced quite the same issue and tried to change settings of my drive...
tried various lines, with unitcontrol and myunitcontrol...
when I type something like "UnitControl Device=cybppc.device Unit=8 Period=20 Offset=10 Wide Reselection FWC",
I'm getting a "Unit 8 Error -1 Can't set the Period/Offset parameters"... any idea anyone? :(

Whenever I open the "reular" GUI-unitcontrol, and set the paramters, it works... (from approx. 11 to 29 MB/s)
 
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