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5.4
Compatibility 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.
5.5
Software 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
5.6
Other certification
Microsoft software compatibility.
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