From:
centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hull-Richter
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007
1:15 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: [CentOS] Looking for a
good disk exerciser
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?
Thanks.
Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer
DATAllegro ( www.datallegro.com)
85
949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 – fax
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonnie/
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Kelly F. Hickel
Senior Software Architect
MQSoftware, Inc
952.345.8677
kfh@mqsoftware.com