[CentOS] Looking for a good disk exerciser

Mark Hull-Richter

mhullrich at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 18:15:21 UTC 2007


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 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA  92656
949-680-3082 - Office     949-330-7691 - fax
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