5.4Compatibility test configurations

The Momentus drives have been tested to demonstrate compliance with ATA/ATAPI-6 in both the master drive and slave drive positions. These tests were preformed to ensure the functionality to ATA/ATAPI-6 specifications and the compatibility of Seagate Momentus drives with other ATA/ATAPI-6 compliant peripherals.

5.5Software utilities

The following is a brief overview of a some of the Seagate utilities used during the Seagate competitive analy- sis process.

The Seagate SeaTools application is an exclusive disc drive diagnostic software designed to troubleshoot most hard drive issues. Desktop edition works with most ATA, SATA, or SCSI drives in desktop systems and has a 98 percent accuracy rate.

The Seagate DiscWizard™ application simplifies the installation of disc drives. This software also overcomes many system BIOS and operating system limitations that can complicate the installation of higher-capacity ATA (IDE) interface drives.

This is a list of some of the third party utilities used in the testing process.

Vendor

Application

 

 

AMI

Diagnostic

 

 

Apple

Macbench

 

 

Intel

PCI-EXE

 

 

Microsoft

Winbench99

 

 

Symantec

Norton Utilities

 

 

5.6Other certification

Microsoft software compatibility.

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