Drive 10
anyone using drive 10?
<a href="http://www.micromat.com/drive10.html" target="_blank">http://www.micromat.com/drive10.html</a>
thoughts on it's usefulness and if it has caused any problems on your system would be appreciated.
use techtool pro with my iMac G3 in os 9.1 and really like it....planning on using drive 10 with my new iMac....g
<a href="http://www.micromat.com/drive10.html" target="_blank">http://www.micromat.com/drive10.html</a>
thoughts on it's usefulness and if it has caused any problems on your system would be appreciated.
use techtool pro with my iMac G3 in os 9.1 and really like it....planning on using drive 10 with my new iMac....g
Comments
if they would add the ability to defrag/optimize, unerase and wipe disc, then drive 10 would be a very good and wellrounded utility.
i hope they add more tests and features soon...
hey! this is my 500th post....either weeeeee!!! i love this board....or dammmmnnnnn!!! i need to get out more..... <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
[ 02-12-2002: Message edited by: thegelding ]</p>
The beachball and apps crashing are the apps themselves and won't affect your system stability most of the time. Even then, most is fixed by a restart. I read somewhere that the system checks iteslf automatically every start up making a disk repair utility even more pointless...er, mm, I mean to me.
Unit Ready
Ascertains the drive's ability to receive commands.
*\tSupply Voltage
Checks the power supply voltage level that powers your drive!
*\tSelf-Diagnostic
Runs manufacturer's self-test on the drive.
*\tRezero Unit
Determines the drive's ability to resynchronize and rezero the read/write heads.
*\tFormat Check
Establishes whether the drive was properly formatted during initial setup.
*\tSpare Sectors
Checks the service tracks to isolate whether there are enough spare blocks for block repairs.
*\tSurface Scan
Checks entire media surface for defects that could cause read or write errors. Blocks are repaired by remapping.
*\tRandom Read
Used in conjunction with the Random Write test, reads data from a random memory location.
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*\tRandom Write
Used in conjunction with the Random Read test, writes data from a random memory location.
*\tSeek
This test checks the ability of the initiator to position the device heads in preparation for access to a particular logical block.
*\tLinear Read
Used in conjunction with the Linear Write test, reads a linear set of blocks from the drive.
*\tLinear Write
Used in conjunction with the Linear Read test, writes a linear set of blocks to the drive.
*\tRead Buffer
This test is used in conjunction with the WRITE BUFFER command as a diagnostic function for testing the drive's buffer cache and bus integrity.
*\tWrite Buffer
This test is used in conjunction with the READ BUFFER command as a diagnostic function for testing the drive's buffer cache and bus integrity.
*\tVolume Structure
Tests and repairs critical volume structure elements like Volume Header, Extents File, Catalog File, Attributes, etc.
But, it redeemed itself. It saved my system after a second failure due to structure errors, and thank God for that. I'll be running it more often now.
BTW, disk first aid couldn't fix the problem and the OSX partition wouldn't boot. Drive 10...thank you!
[ 02-15-2002: Message edited by: SDW2001 ]</p>