| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 505.1 | floppy tester? | UKCSSE::KEANE | | Thu Jun 15 1989 06:31 | 14 |
| hi Mike,
I have a P.D. program thats a floppy disk tester. It formats reads and
writes various test patterns on the disk, (shouldnt that be writes and
reads), I dont know whether you would call it a floppy drive tester tho
I have also a PD speed prog somewhere. I'll upload them tonite, if I
remember, and put them in my public under floppytest.arc. I havnt got a
memory tester though.
Cheers
Pat K.
Ps. Ukcsse::disk$csse01:[keane.st.arc] is where it will be.
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| 505.2 | memory test on the net | LEDDEV::WALLACE | | Thu Jun 15 1989 13:35 | 10 |
| I hope Jeff doesn't mind me putting a pointer to his directory (he's
put pointers to it many times :-).
A memory test is located at:
PRNSYS::DUA1:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]MEMTEST.DOC, .PRG
I've seen/used two PD memory tests and this seemed to be the better
of the two.
Ray
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| 505.3 | PRNSYS is moving | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeff Lomicka | Thu Jun 15 1989 13:51 | 5 |
| No, I don't mind, but PRNSYS will go down tonight, and when it
re-appears on Monday it will have a new node number in area 5.
You might want to get while the getting is good.
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| 505.4 | Emulating Brutus and Spider:- Try, try again. | UKCSSE::KEANE | | Fri Jun 16 1989 04:30 | 8 |
| re .1
I am sorry, I have not been able to upload yet. When I tried to get on
last night, our dial back security system told me I was fourth in the
queue, and would dial me later,- but it didnt. Every time I looked I
was still fourth in queue. There must have been a lot of people working
late last night!. (In reality our cluster had chucked its lunch)
Will try again ASAP the weekend.
Pat K.
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| 505.5 | Thanks.. | ASPEN2::BOIKO | Is this Heaven..No, it's Iowa.. | Fri Jun 16 1989 14:50 | 3 |
| Thanks alot you guy's....
-mike-
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| 505.6 | AT last | UKCSSE::KEANE | | Mon Jun 19 1989 16:38 | 6 |
| Hi Mike,
Finally got around to uploading tonight. I have called the arc file
FLOPTEST.ARC
I am sorry for the delay!
Pat K.
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| 505.7 | Info on using FLOPTEST/CHECKER program | LEDDEV::WALLACE | | Sat Jun 24 1989 23:45 | 18 |
| If anyone is planning on using the floppy disk CHECKER program from
the FLOPTEST.ARC uploaded by Pat I have a bit of info on using it
and a change you may want to make.
The program (CHECKER.PRG) looks for the file CHECKER.DAT in the
folder \CHECKER. Which means you MUST create a "top level" folder
called \CHECKER and place CHECKER.DAT in it. Otherwise CHECKER will
display a dialog box with some error message about PC>$00000000.
A nicer alternative is to use a disk editor (I used DLII) and change
the one occurrance of the string "\checker\checker.dat" to
"checker.dat " (the string starts at cluster 11 decimal
and byte 10C hex). I tried to change the byte count in front of
the string but that caused another problem when the ran. Leaving
the byte count alone and filling out the end of the string with
spaces works fine.
Ray
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| 505.8 | I want VMS... | IOWAIT::MESSENGER | Enough of this stuff, Spuds! | Tue Jun 27 1989 15:09 | 11 |
| Re: .-1
> A nicer alternative is to use a disk editor (I used DLII) and change
> the one occurrance of the string "\checker\checker.dat" to
> "checker.dat " (the string starts at cluster 11 decimal
Ugh. I swear, one of these days I'm gonna hack this filesystem so that
it supports "logical names"...
- hbm
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| 505.9 | let's know when it's done | BERN01::RUGGIERO | | Wed Jun 28 1989 03:49 | 6 |
| > Ugh. I swear, one of these days I'm gonna hack this filesystem so that
> it supports "logical names"...
> - hbm
Please let us know when it's done!!! ;-)
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| 505.10 | I would like to give it a shot, too | UTRTSC::TEYEMA | Rule#1: I'M RIGHT. Rule#2: Apply #1 | Mon Jul 10 1989 10:11 | 13 |
| Howdy y'all
I am having serious doubts about the reliability of my drive (1040-Internal)
and would like to run a test on it too.
I tried to copy UKCSSE::DISK$CSSE01:[KEANE.ST.ARC]FLOPTEST.ARC but got
a persistent "no go".
Can somebody give me a pointer to where this, or another drive-tester is
located ? Would appreciate it .
Casper UTRTSC:: TEYEMA.
PS: Does this CHECKER program in FLOPTEST.ARC also check disk-speed ?
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| 505.11 | As I recall | OLDTMR::WALLACE | | Mon Jul 10 1989 12:02 | 7 |
| FLOPTEST does test the drive speed but only believe the first number
that pops up on the screen. That is to say it repeatedly checks the
drive speed re-displaying the speed each time through it's loop. The
problem is only the first time through the loop results in a correct
RPM for the drive.
Ray
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