With more then 20 years of experience of developing qualification and
factory test software, Brelec Software combined mass-storage drives (IDE, SCSI,
USB, IEEE1394, SATA) and optical drive (IDE, USB, IEEE1394, SATA) test software
in a new test application named DriveCheck. DriveCheck is a MS Windows-based
application *).
DriveCheck is setup for single device qualification and for multiple
device factory verification tests. The application is split into two parts,
namely:
Single Drive Test (Qualification)
Multiple Drive Test (Factory)
The Qualification test suite is split into various sub tests, depending
on device type (Hard Disk Drive, Optical Drive, Memory Stick):
Device Configuration (Hard Disk Drive) –
Cache strategy, Partitioning and formatting, Clean-up (wipe) Medium.
Device/Medium Information
Device Performance – Read/Write, Seek,
Power-management, and more [1].
Diagnostics and medium scan
Device low-level debugger (low-level
commands) [2].
Device Application simulator (Optical Drive)
– CD/DVD Player and recorder [3] and [4].
Script interpreter
Optional: Vendor specific tests can be added
– CD: BLER C1/C2, DVD PI/PO-Errors, Jitter, HDD: Physical R/W
[1] [2]
[3] [4]
All device commands, timing, errors are logged. Performance graphs are
shown in separate dialog and can be printed.
The Factory test suite is able to test multiple devices, each with there
one test-script or same test-script.
The test-script can be validated before use.
DriveCheck for factory use, support command-line parameters to allow
batch/production software to start DriveCheck automatically with special
features and configuration set.
*) DriveCheck requires MS Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Brelec Software B.V. –
FEB-2006