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Momentus 5400.3 PATA Product Manual, Rev. C
5.3 Operating system versions tested
This list indicates the types of Operating Systems Seagate tested during the compatibility testing process and
highlights the major OS manufacturers. Several variations of the major operating systems have been tested.
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.
5.6 Other certification
Microsoft software compatibility.
Table 11: Operating systems tested
Manufacturer Version/Release
Apple MacOS 9.22
Apple MacOS X 10.2.3
Microsoft MSDOS 6.22
Microsoft Windows 98, 98SE, ME (multiple languages)
Microsoft Windows 2000, 2000-Pro (+SP 1 thru 4) (multiple languages)
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (+SP 6 and 6a) (+Japanese)
Microsoft Windows XP, XP Pro, XP Home (+SP1) (multiple languages)
Vendor Application
AMI Diagnostic
Apple Macbench
Intel PCI-EXE
Microsoft Winbench99
Symantec Norton Utilities