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Program to test hard drives

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Elena

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Oct 20, 2000
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Hi,

I am looking into writing a program in C++ to test basic functions on an ATA hard drive, such as read, write, identify, etc. Does anyone have any information on where I can learn more about it?

Thanks,

Elena
 
Hi,
INTEL has a program available called....

IOMETER ( pronounced eye -OM -ITER )

Which can be used to simulates reads and writes to put a load on a disk drive and measure performance.

From a code point of view there is a program called

scsicmds

for interfacing with SCSI devices. Maybe this same companay makes source code for ATA hard drives.

just use your favorite search engine to locate the source code.
 
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