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<DIV>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 (!). <BR><BR><SPAN
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size=2> <snip> </FONT></SPAN><BR>What is a good program out
there that exercises a disk to give some assurance of errors or lack
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class=377453518-12042007><SPAN class=377453518-12042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I like this one: <A
href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/iogen/">http://freshmeat.net/projects/iogen/</A></FONT></SPAN> </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=377453518-12042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>pretty
easy to use, and seems to crush systems.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=377453518-12042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Mike</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>