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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Mark Hull-Richter<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 12, 2007
1:15 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> CentOS mailing list<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [CentOS] Looking for a
good disk exerciser</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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>
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. <br>
<br>
What is a good program out there that exercises a disk to give some assurance
of errors or lack thereof?<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer<br>
DATAllegro (<a href="http://www.datallegro.com"> www.datallegro.com</a>)<br>
85 <st1:City w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:City>, Second Floor, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Aliso Viejo</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">92656</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 <font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>–</span></font> fax<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonnie/<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:navy'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:navy'>Kelly F. Hickel<br>
Senior Software Architect<br>
MQSoftware, Inc<br>
952.345.8677<br>
kfh@mqsoftware.com</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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