[CentOS] Looking for a good disk exerciser
Peter Gross
pag at nanosec.com
Fri Apr 13 06:08:53 UTC 2007
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I recently added a Seagate 400Gb SATA drive to my system, and it has
> been behaving strangely since I put it in. for one thing, the BIOS
> S.M.A.R.T. came up with a warning the last time I booted with it
> enabled, saying that I should backup my data and replace the disk (!).
>
> I still have not made any irreversible data transfers to this drive, and
> I have some time yet to take it back, but I'd like to know for sure that
> it needs it, or at least have some reasonable evidence of failure.
>
> What is a good program out there that exercises a disk to give some
> assurance of errors or lack thereof?
I found that older versions of smartmontools (even the one included with
CentOS 5) do not handle newer onboard SataII controllers. In my case,
one system is running CentOS 4 -- that motherboard has an Nvidia MCP
northbridge (sata_nv). I ended up building kernel 2.6.20.1 to get it
working better. My other machine has an Intel P965 Express northbridge.
In the former case I downloaded the smartmontools-5.37.2 source and
built it; in the latter I downloaded the fedora core 7 development
source rpm for smartmontools (also 5.37-2). In both cases smartctl -a
started working properly with the combo a newer kernel and latest
version of smartmontools.
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