Drive benchmarks?

[Maury Markowitz]

I'm wondering if anyone is aware of an article benchmarking the various drive options on the Atari, starting with the "base 810"?

 

I've been googling, but unfortunately almost every article with "atari" has "disk drive" so you get the Byte benchmark, etc.

[+Nezgar]

The Atari 8-Bit FAQ covers a thorough description of all of the disk drives that were known, and their capabilities starting in section 3.2:

http://seriouscomputerist.atariverse.com/pages/resource/resource.general.htm

 

The Alterra Hardware Reference Manual has a highly technical description of the functions of various disk drives:

http://www.virtualdub.org/downloads/Altirra%20Hardware%20Reference%20Manual.pdf

 

For actual performance benchmarks, a good tool is 'RWTEST.COM' - you can see results from this test in various posts across this forum. Might be nice to consolidate them though!

[Fox-1 / mnx]

Aware, yes, but same issue as searching online. Too much info to find it.

 

The article I have in mind was from either Ken Siders or Ben "the Alchemist" Poehland so it may be an "Atari Classics magazine" article. I only remember the ATR8000 was included too but that's pretty much all I know.

[+DrVenkman]

The Atari 8-Bit FAQ covers a thorough description of all of the disk drives that were known, and their capabilities starting in section 3.2:

http://seriouscomputerist.atariverse.com/pages/resource/resource.general.htm

 

The Alterra Hardware Reference Manual has a highly technical description of the functions of various disk drives:

http://www.virtualdub.org/downloads/Altirra%20Hardware%20Reference%20Manual.pdf

 

For actual performance benchmarks, a good tool is 'RWTEST.COM' - you can see results from this test in various posts across this forum. Might be nice to consolidate them though!

 

I had a hell of time finding this file myself last year so attached here is an Atari DOS 2.0/2.5 disk image that contains both RWTEST.COM as well as RWTEST.TXT, an explanatory text file.

 

RWTEST.atr